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Barbados: Fair Trade Bananas for Sainsbury

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 15 December 2006 16:21 GMT

Sainsbury, the popular UK supermarket chain, has made a decision to stock Fair Trade bananas only. Gallimaufry applauds the move, saying, “Small-scale banana farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to benefit substantially.”

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