FRIDAY 10 MARCH
Business
Not-So-Fair Trade?
7:00pm - 7:30pm
BBC2 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 5497
Subtitled, Widescreen
Libby Potter investigates the booming Fair Trade movement as it becomes big business. There's concern about the premium pricing of Fair Trade products in some supermarkets and there's controversy that even food giant Nestle has been granted Fair Trade status, with critics arguing that their adoption of Fair Trade principles is little more than a PR exercise. Potter asks whether, at the very moment Fair Trade is taking off, the movement can satisfy its growing band of critics?
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