Fair Trade - A Cooperative Revolution

Cooperatives UK Magazine, Issue 3, 2004

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"Fair trade is founded on an alternative system of ideas and values and it is important that we don't lose that."

The Cooperative Group was the first major supermarket in the UK to stock fair trade products - it is now the country's leading fair trade retailer. But what is the background to this innovation and how are cooperatives leading the revolution, which is bringing fair trade to both producers in the countries of the South and consumers across the UK.