Italy: Fair Trade Week runs until end of October

There is still time until October 31 for the traditional opportunity to do a shopping that supports communities in developing countries and ensures environmentally friendly cultivation methods: the promotions of Fairtrade products continue, the ethical brand most recognized in the world, in thousands of sales points throughout the national territory. Coffee, cocoa and bananas, but also chocolate, biscuits, breakfast cereals, ice cream, dried fruit, fruit juices, baked goods, flowers and much more: the proposals are really many. They are worth a thousand times what they cost, because a Fairtrade product comes from a circuit that in addition to recognizing a fairer price at the origin, the Fairtrade Minimum Price, ensures an additional premium to producers, or an extra amount of money, to start projects at benefit of the community, according to a collective democratic process, such as investment in production improvement processes, training, construction of infrastructures or ...