Bananas: 1/7 of 7
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Ecologist
30th May, 2012
If you have bought bananas or pineapples in a supermarket recently did you know that many of the workers that plant, pack and grow them live in poverty? more...
Behind the label: how fair are organic and Fairtrade bananas?
Tom Levitt
28th May, 2012
The Dominican Republic's organic and Fairtrade boom has helped banana growers but what about the slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers? Tom Levitt reports on the plight of the forgotten people in the banana trade more...
The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over pesticide poisoning (and won)
Tom Levitt
14th March, 2011
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports more...
Why you should think twice before eating bananas
The Ecologist
21st January, 2011
The Frontline Club holds a special London screening of acclaimed film - Bananas!* - exposing the scandal of pesticide use in banana cultivation more...
Bent Bananas
Joanna Blythman
13th January, 2009
The economies of whole islands in the Caribbean face ruin if the WTO, acting at the behest of US-owned multinationals, forces the EU to end preferential trade agreements with small-scale West Indian banana producers more...
The banana brief
Ed Hamer
2nd June, 2008
From plantation to consumer: a tale of chemicals, slavery and CO2 more...
Bananas: from plantation to plate
Ed Hamer
2nd June, 2008
What could be more cheerful than this ubiquitous breakfast fruit? But if you’re not buying them Fairtrade and organic, argues Ed Hamer, then you’re buying into a modern agricultural scandal more...
Bananas: 1/7 of 7
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