Fairtrade Fortnight is the annual celebration of all things Fairtrade and this year we were focusing on the Fairtrade food and drink items that we may not be able to enjoy in future years due to climate change.
The theme of Everything Must Not Go was reflected at a national level by a pop up shop in Shoreditch - the Endangered Aisle - which our Chair Joanna was delighted to visit along with other fair trade campaigners and supporters.
Coffee farmer Nimrod from Uganda (below) told the assembled group how challenging it is to grow coffee - which only thrives at 19 degrees C - when the weather is increasingly unpredictable and the world is warming. Coffee farmers have to plant higher and higher up the mountain to find the right conditions, and eventually you simply run out of mountain.
Crops like coffee, tea, chocolate and bananas will be harder to come by and more expensive for customers, but more importantly it will be increasingly harder for farmers and workers to make a decent income from their crops.
Around Lancashire there were plenty of activities throughout the Fortnight including stalls in schools, colleges, shopping centres and libraries.
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