March 02, 2009

Make your own mind up about Fairtrade
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However, the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation does not have a monopoly of virtue. In fact, there is a healthy market in products that have similar attributes to “officially labelled” products. Afghan Action, for example, is a model company in the ethical market, working in the most challenging conditions imaginable - perhaps too challenging for the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation. It provides extremely good conditions of work for its employees and overcomes numerous challenges to import its products through a suspicious customs service.

Read the article on the institute of economic affairs web site