Fairtrade, over 14 thousand tons of bananas in Italy

Bananas are confirmed as the main product for the Italian market with a sales volume of 14,300 tonnes (+8%), both thanks to wide distribution in large-scale retail trade - Aldi, Coop, Gruppo Selex, IN's, Pam Panorama - and thanks to diffusion in school canteens. This is what emerged this morning in Milan on the occasion of the event Thirty years on the path to sustainability organized by Fairtrade. “This year Fairtrade Italia has reached its 30th birthday – declared Paolo Pastore, general director of Fairtrade Italia – This is an exceptional milestone for our organisation, founded from the bottom up to promote fairer trading conditions for farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. There are many results that we have achieved in recent years: the number of Fairtrade products on sale continues to grow in the shops and supermarkets of our country. Farmers' organizations have also grown with us. Today we are talking about just under two million farmers and workers who benefit from ...