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The Big Swap, the UK's most recent Fairtrade campaign (2010), encouraged shoppers to choose a fair trade product instead of their usual purchase.
Almost a million people rose to the Fairtrade Foundation's challenge between February 22 and March 7 2010.
That's great for producers in the developing world, many of them small farmers who often struggle to make a living when they have to compete with import protection and the costs of buying the seeds and fertilisers.
Here's what the Department for International Development has to say on Fair trade: "DFID welcomes Fairtrade Fortnight. It supports its message of making trade work for the developing world. But our commitment to fair trade is not just confined to two weeks in February. We believe that trade is a very powerful way to reduce world poverty, which is why we work throughout the year to improve trading opportunities for poor countries."
But this also presents consumers with a seemingly insoluble dilemma - when we're also being encouraged to reduce our carbon footprint by buying local to combat climate change. If shoppers are persuaded to stick to buying local it impacts on farmers in often poor countries. Here's the DFID again "With British shoppers spending over £1 million each day on buying African fruit and vegetables and with supplies of organic African produce growing, banning (imported foods) could result in the loss of a valuable market and impact on many small farmers. "Recent estimates suggest that almost a million rural African livelihoods depend at least partly on the fruit and vegetable trade with the UK."
Would you give up bananas, melons, avocados or even green peppers - things we tend to take for granted and half the time forget are imported - in order to reduce your carbon footprint?
How do we even know whether our sacrifice would have a significant impact?
Is there a solution?
Studies show that organic farming can be more profitable than conventional methods of production.
Did you know? - Exports to Europe of organic horticultural products from the developing world are worth an estimated US$100 million a year. - You emit more carbon driving six and a half miles to buy your shopping than is emitted by flying a pack of Kenyan green beans to the UK. - Air-freighting fruit and vegetables from Africa accounts for less than one-tenth of 1% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Co-op Group, we must "ensure that the world's poorest producers are not penalised for what are essentially the sins of world's richest consumers." - For example, Kenya's carbon emissions are 200kg per head, while in the UK they are almost 50 times that.
Companies involved in research and development of agricultural products like biopesticides, including the CEO of a leading US based company in this field.
He,is on record as saying that it is not right for farmers to have to compromise on yield and that sustainable farming using this new generation of safer, more natural agro products, may eventually provide part of the answer to the dilemma, particularly in the developing world, since it will help protect their land, maximise its yield and help producers to sell their products in the global marketplace.
Hopefully eventually none of us will have to wrestle with our consciences between Fair Trade and reducing our carbon footprint - nor sacrifice our melons and bananas.
Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers
Ali Withers is an experienced, qualified journalist specialising in a variety of consumer issues including organic food, its production and use of low-chem biopesticides, biofungicides and yield enhancers for sustainable farming. A useful web resource she has found is the US-based low-chem agricultural products R & D company AgraQuest