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Podcast: Olive You Whole
Episode: The Impact of Choosing Fairtrade with Kate Stritzinger
Description: The next time youβre enjoying your morning coffee and your chocolate banana pancakes for breakfast, think about where those products youβre buying actually come from and who is farming them. The ugly truth is that those products could be the result of people living in poverty and getting paid an unfair price for their goods. According to the World Bank, many smallholder farmers around the world are living on less than $2 a day. Sadly, the commodity prices are not set by the farmers themselves, but they're set on Wall Street. And so, there's a total disc...