Fiar Trade will boost sales of olive oil by Palestinians

Lots of others will eventually benefit, since olive oil is typically a small farmer product all over Southern Europe, Middle East and North Africa and even Baja California. Good on FairTrade folks!

clipped from us.oneworld.net An olive press owned by a business cooperative in Palestine. © arròsalforn [STOP MASACRE IN GAZA] (flickr)"Efforts to tackle the global food crisis will fail without urgent action to support small farmers in developing countries," says a recent report from the Fairtrade Foundation. Although people living on small farms around the world account for one third of the global population, agricultural support worldwide has spiralled dramatically over the last decdes, specifies the report, The Global Food Crisis and Fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions? "Access to the Fairtrade market has given us [small farmers] hope, otherwise we would have been wiped out. Without hope farmers would be harder hit, and would be degraded. The hope for our future is Fairtrade sales," says Joseph Mbusa in Uganda, one of many small farmers interviewed for the report.