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KitKat announced in June that it would be cutting its ties with Fairtrade, even after the popular Nestlé brand was warned that the move would affect thousands of farmers.
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Thousands of Moroccan women stranded in Spain due to coronavirus travel restrictions have begun to return home after a torturous 2 month ordeal.
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May and June's news and events in ethical food and drink.
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A seasonal worker is suing the Spanish government for confining him to a makeshift home without water or basic supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Over the past year, Mona Bani followed Dee Woods and Leslie Barson, co-founders of Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), as they reject the concept of food banks and now step up to meet demand during the lockdown.
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Workers in Almeria, Spain say that they are denied the minimum wage and left without employment if they speak out.
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The United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty has condemned conditions for immigrant workers in Huelva, Southern Spain, as the start of the 2020 berry picking season begins.
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People all over the world are sharing resources and knowledge or producing what they need themselves. Ideas that now seem more relevant than ever.
We spoke to Simon Jones in Derby about how the project he’s involved in has adapted to the Coronavirus pandemic, and what his motivations are.
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We spoke to Kay Thompson in Derby about how a project she's involved in has adapted to the Coronavirus pandemic, and what her motivations are.
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The focus on a meat market in China obscures the more complex role that our destruction of the environment has played in spreading viruses such as COVID-19.
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Indigenous people in Brazil have launched a new campaign targeting companies that they say are complicit in deforestation in Latin America.
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The International Campaign for the Rohingya (IRC) has called for a boycott of Kirin Group over its links with the military and authorities in Myanmar (Burma), in the wake of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state.
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Anna Clayton met up with John Vendy and Sue Arnott, two beekeepers from Bentham, North Yorkshire, to learn more about their approach to natural beekeeping.
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We caught up with Tracy Mitchell, Business Manager at our Best Buy company Just Trading Scotland. The company came top in our ethical shopping guide for rice with its True Origin (was Kilombero) brand.
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From smallholder farmers to climate refugees, workers in our supply chains are amongst those already most affected by climate breakdown.
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Our honey guide found that buying honey may not be the best thing for honey bees and pollinators. So here are some actions you can take to help.
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Honey is not vegan, and even for non-vegans, there are many ethical issues associated with the honey industry that may lead us to want to cut down on our intake.
This article looks at plant alternatives to bee honey.
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Workers for a company supplying vegetables to the UK have been laid-off without warning and face eviction from their homes, after their employer decided to close some of its greenhouses in Almeria, Spain.
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Those in the UK ‘discovered’ a taste for the banana – which had been grown for centuries in areas like West Africa, the Caribbean and South America – in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Certified bananas are commonplace, meaning that growers' and workers' rights should have improved. However, there are still issues within this field.