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The Only Banana You Should Buy
Changing Canadian Minsets to Choose Fairtrade
From: The Fair Trade Handbook
$1.10
In this chapter, the authors examine the roots of cheap banana thinking and the alternative that Fairtrade provides. They also share success stories from a couple of retailers whose responsible procurement decisions are changing the Canadian Fairtrade landscape.
Contributors
Jennie Coleman and Madison Hopper
Jennie Coleman has been owner/president of Equifruit since 2013. She combines a lengthy career in business with longstanding social justice roots, set during two years’ volunteer work in Namibia in the mid-90s. She is a former co-chair of the Fairtrade Canada board of directors and loves fair trade for its pragmatic approach to international development. She loves Equifruit for… the fruit (yum!), the farmers and the fact that something as simple as eating a fair trade banana can have such a positive impact on someone’s life.