Fairtrade Premium is ‘critical step’ towards living wage for banana workers

New research on Ghanaian and Colombian banana workers in UK retail supply chains has shown that the Fairtrade Premium plays an important role in achieving living wages.

On top of the price that Fairtrade farmers and workers are paid for their produce or labour, they receive an extra sum called the Fairtarde Premium to spend on community or business projects of their

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