FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2022

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, hundreds of individuals, companies and groups across Ireland come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food, people who are often exploited and underpaid.

  • Launch Event – Choose the World You Want


    Monday 21st February 12.30pm

    This year we are again focussing on some of the many ways all of us, but especially farmers are affected by climate change.

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  • What is Fairtrade? 


    Tuesday 22nd February 6pm

    Every time we head to do our shopping we are overwhelmed with choices of products, even when it comes down to the number of different certification marks on our food!

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  • Climate the Environment and Fairtrade – Coffee and cocoa farmers set out some of the challenges they face and some of the solutions


    Wednesday 23rd February 3pm

    This talk features small scale farmers from Honduras and Ghana and focuses on how they support sustainable farming practices even as they adapt to increasing climate impacts.

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  • How Big is the Donut? How Fair the Economics? – Erinch Sahan


    Thursday 24th February 2.30PM

    Doughnut Economics is a compass for human prosperity in the 21st century, with the aim of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.

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  • Chocolate origins are savoury, not sweet.


    Thursday 24th February 7pm

    Join David Greenwood Haigh to explore pairing your favourite chocolate and wine!

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  • Small-holder Banana farmers and Climate Impacts


    Monday 28th February 2pm

    Small-holder banana farmers from the Dominican Republic supply many of the Fairtrade Organic bananas we eat – what happens when the rain stops?

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  • EU please Be Fair to Small-holder Farmers and to Forests


    Tuesday 1st March 2-3PM

    Proposed new EU deforestation regulations to be adopted in 2022 are welcome in terms of climate protection but may further impoverish or even exclude small holder producers of coffee and cocoa.

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  • Join us for this Educational workshop all about Chocolate For Primary Schools!


    Wednesday 2nd March 2pm

    As part of their studies children will learn about the history of chocolate and chocolate production from bean to bar, which covers subjects including citizenship, geography, history and science.

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  • Fairtrade Fortnight Zero-waste Hero Bananas Cookery Class


    Thursday 3rd March 2pm

     Join Wholefood Chef Rozanne Stevens of Susty Kids Cooking Club for a fun and interactive online cookery class of sweet and savoury zero-waste banana recipes. The class is designed for kids aged 9 to 13, with family friendly recipes that are perfect for breakfasts and lunchboxes.  

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  • World Wildlife Day


    Thursday 3rd March 5pm

    For  World Wild Life Day this year we are bringing together a coffee farmer from the highlands of Honduras (did you know Honduras has 40,000 trees for every person in the country?!) and a man who has a couple of acres in West Clare in Ireland and who has just written a book, Under Summer Pastures,  about that rarest of Irish forests – the temperate rainforest.

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  • Women in Coffee


    Friday 4th March 3pm

    Join us for our (early) International Women’s Day event, celebrating the wonderful women in coffee! A conversation not to be missed, we will be hearing from two speakers from both at home and abroad – Raquel Girdon Rosales and Sheila Dowling.

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