The EU and others need to do for extractive industries what is being done for forests - ie set min standards for market access but include Mega€€€€ for social & Env supports. Critical-Minerals Race Could Fuel Global Inequality by Tom Achoki Project Syndicate prosyn.org/qEJlyuH

Low turnout here of just over 50% in EU poll but ‘… around 3 in 10 people voted because of agriculture and rural Ireland supports, foreign policy issues, workers’ rights and climate action. …. what motivated young people the most was climate action.. ‘ jrnl.ie/6456960

Good for Ghana! Next Ghana needs to start processing more of its cocoa into chocolate! No good reason why European countries should capture all the value in the 21st Century - wasn’t good enough for Ireland and isn’t good enough for Ghana or other African countries.

Join us in rewriting the rules. Sign the #WellbeingForAll petition act.gp/3Lcpuao

Interesting historical piece about our love of bananas in IT today - but behind a wall 👎 Could have done with more than the pic of some Fairtrade bananas, and info that EU single market added 50% to banana costs here - like for instance the ongoing struggle for decent wages.

We’re in the Late Night Arena at the EP..

Good to see the Electric Picnic helping to get the Fairtrade messages out - ⁦Electric Picnic⁩

The Bewleys Coffee Bodega Bunch are at the Electric Picnic Bewley's Ireland Summertime … And the coffee is easy..

All festival goers need music to respair to too.. RESPAIR is the little-known opposite of ‘despair’: a word for a renewed or reinvigorated hope, or a recovery from anguish or despair. Electric Picnic

Kelly Lou Cakes were the outlet that went furthest to support Fairtrade at the EP this year.. 👏👏👏

This is why living incomes and wages based on cash payments to farmers and workers need to be pursued and should be the norm. Opinion: Cash transfers should be the default, not just the benchmark devex.com/news/opinion-c… #Devex via @Devex

Hard to overestimate the importance of coops then or now - for small-scale farmers in Ireland or for small-scale farmers in Latin America - it wasn’t just the unions that built the middle class as President Biden said again last night - the coops do it too!

Fairtrade Ireland Not always so chocoLONELY, when we have fab friends like you 🍫😊

Irish weather patterns indicate ‘global weirding’ is a threat to our food security, farmer and data scientist says ‘Global weirding’ being the term for random, acute and chaotic climate changes affecting the whole planet, including Ireland, right now. irishtimes.com/environment/20…

The Future Of Food Depends On Paying Workers Fair Wages forbes.com/sites/danielle…

Fairtrade UK’ s 30th anniversary is this year and their Fortnight (9-22nd Sept) starts on Monday - see 3 things to do in Ireland! fairtrade.ie/be-the-change/

This kind of pilot project with Indigenous communities in Peru’s Amazon and with NGO Cool Earth is a good recognition of people’s basic needs - support people to look after the forests! Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests? theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Just before Fairtrade Fortnight P&K Fairtrade has achieved this badge from Fairtrade Foundation for selling Fairtrade goods at Farmers' Markets in Perth and Kinross Council and on Church stalls. We also encourage businesses to stock #Fairtrade. Please help us! Choose Fairtrade and #BeTheChange