Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda
… Even more importantly, she’s the only environmentalist ever to have received the … secretary Clare Short suggested that environmentalism was a comfortable, … remarks, Maathai asserts that poverty and environmental degradation are locked in a …
According to a Mori poll in March 2004, the fairtrade mark is now recognised by 39 per cent of the British public, up from 11 per cent five years ago. But what difference does fairtrade actually make to the lives of the producers? John Atkin looks at the Nicaraguan community of La Pita who sell half of their coffee on the fairtrade market
… and provides training on social, farming and environmental issues. In addition, La Pita and …