Category: Impact and Challenges

Marriages end all the time, yes, but for me, it wasn’t just a marriage that ended, it was a process, a big happily-ever-after plan that had ended. Like many who had attained university education, I had migrated to the city of lights from a little village called Kamutira in Kirinyaga County, Kenya.

All over the world families have found a major side effect of the pandemic has been the increasing difficulty of finding nursery care for younger children, and widespread school closures.

In Côte d’Ivoire, women and men are working together to break down gender stereotypes in cocoa farming communities, and building up a new model of women as entrepreneurs and leaders.

The past three months have meant a season that will be remembered for years to come amongst East African flower growers.

Flower workers are particularly vulnerable to acute food insecurity as earnings are low; without wages and no savings, the largely migrant workforce have no way of paying for food.

by Fairtrade International. The COVID-19 crisis is a disaster for millions of children. On World Day against Child Labour we…

Tackling climate change is at the heart of the fair trade movement, as it threatens the livelihoods of those we are working to protect.

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the fragility of global supply chains and the importance of ensuring sustainable livelihoods for the farmers and workers within them.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted just how connected we all are, not just in our towns and cities but also across the world.

Farmers and workers in the global south are often living on thin margins even during ‘normal’ times.