Fighting the Banana Wars

In Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK Harriet Lamb relives the dramatic campaigns and successes that have brought Fairtrade to this point, outlines the hurdles still to be overcome and shows what we can all do to help achieve global Fairtrade.

Meet Jorge Ramirez, manager of El Guabo, a banana co-operative in southern Ecuador, which has helped a small community of farmers to survive in the face of exploitation by multinationals; Amos Wiltshire, National Fairtrade Co-ordinator for Dominica, where the introduction of new Fairtrade orders from Tesco enabled a community blighted by crime, violence and gangs to regain order and self-respect; Bruce Crowther a local vet and campaigner who turned Garstang, Lancashire into the first Fairtrade Town in the UK; Ganga, a worker in an organic cotton farmer’s group in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, who thanks to Fairtrade has finally managed to buy a set of weighing scales to ensure the community is no longer cheated by money-lenders.

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