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Reflections on fair trade for Cumbrian producers
By FDF adviser Karen Leach, on November 11th, 2011
This is a belated report back on an excellent conference I attended last week – “Cumbria Local and Fair” on trade justice both for overseas farmers and for those in the UK.
It was a long way to travel for a day event, but we have long promoted the notion of “UK fair trade“, in recognition that whilst the severity of human impact will be less than that on many farmers in developing countries, UK farming livelihoods and diversity face equally ruinous pressures from the below-production-cost prices paid by supermarkets and other buyers.
This conference was the first opportunity to participate in discussion of this with farmers, fair trade activists and support agencies – thanks to the inspiration and commitment of Cumbrian fair trade and local food activists.
There were six particularly striking outcomes . . .
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