Buying Fairtrade products can help to tackle climate change ,True or False ?TRUE - Buying products from developing countries is vital for the economic and social development and provides a livelihood for millions of farmers and workers. With premiums from Fairtrade, farmers can implement enviromental protection programmes that will benefit all of us. Coffee farmers in Costa Rica have invested in replanting native trees to prevent soil erosion and have purchased enviromentally friendly ovens that are fuelled by recycled coffee hulls and the dried shells of macadamia nuts. In India, tea farmers have invested part of the Fairtrade premium in a solar panelled heating system for the local health centre, replacing the wood burning one. On another Fairtrade certified tea estate, workers have created their own communal compost heep which families maintain and which the estate purchases as organic fertiliser for the tea bushes.source-fair comment spring 07

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