Fair Trade Phil's Blog

Well Tony has gone, but not before a mutual adoration and backslapping session with Arnie, during which Tony was credited with helping the US set “ambitious” targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases. And now we welcome in Gordon Brown for a new era – change, listening etc. I listened today. There was a radio [...]

My wife announced she was doing the pink ladies sunset walk. What’s that then? I asked.  More than two thousand women of all ages from all walks of life on a 10 mile fund raising walk into the sunset!! See pictures here .  The Pink Ladies was set up in 2001 by several Guernsey women who were undergoing treatment for breast [...]

“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his [...]

 Diverting sugar and maize for biofuels could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths from hunger worldwide, the United Nations’ food envoy warned on Thursday. Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, accused the European Union (EU), Japan and the

United Statesof “total hypocrisy” for promoting biofuels to cut their own dependency [...]

We recently had high profile media coverage of the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery – and correct enough – legal slavery was abolished by an act of parliament in 1807. But was that the end of slavery? Life is not that simple. During the course of this weekend, there were 3 disturbing stories came [...]

Perhaps it’s fitting that I can start the blog by reporting the first birthday of our first shop! Mondomundi in St Martin’s became Guernsey’s largest Fairtrade shop on 8 June 2006 when it was opened by Simeone Greene MBE. It has been a fantastic year for mondomundi and fairtrade in Guernsey. The level of understanding [...]