Events
Fairtrade Fortnight 2010: February 22 - March 7
Wednesday March 24th 6.30pm
Fairtrade in a changing world
C-SCAIPE Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE
(free refreshments from 6pm)
Whitney Kakos, Impact & Sustainability Manager, Cafédirect
Alan Martin, owner of Food for Thought health food shop in Kingston market place
Cafédirect is the UK's largest Fairtrade hot drinks company, working with 260,000 farmers in 40 grower organisations in 14 countries, directly improving the lives of over 1.6 million people.
Whitney Kakos is responsible for Cafedirect’s environmental strategy and a framework to assess the economic, social and environmental impact of the business. She will talk about the AdapCC project, a 3 year public-private partnership with GTZ, a German agency, to help small coffee and tea farmers adapt to climate change. She will also talk about sustainability as one of the criteria for Fairtrade certification.
Alan Martin will talk about the consumer angle, including results of a small survey of Food for Thought’s customers. People may have noticed the many new initiatives at Food for Thought under Alan’s ownership.
Plenty of time for questions
Fairtrade producers live in some of the poorest countries in the world. Ecofootprint-wise they live well below the one planet level. Many are already adversely affected by climate change Mitigating these changes is as important as reducing their already low footprint. Agriculture plays a critical role in the economic and social development of developing countries; up to one and a half million livelihoods in Africa alone are estimated to be dependent upon UK consumption of Africa’s agricultural produce.
65% of carbon emissions from your cup of tea come from boiling your kettle (Forum for the Future 2006)
Do your bit for the environment by boiling only the amount of water you need!
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