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Cumbria Local and Fair

Fairtrade Campaigners, local farmers and other organisations have joined forces to organise a day conference on the case for Fairtrade and local at Rheged on 4th November.

The Conference will:
1. Examine good practice, in Cumbria and beyond, including Fairtrade, to determine ways in which more local farmers and more local food and wool processors can work together for a fairer deal and a more sustain able future, mindful of the challenges which farming faces post 2013.
2. Consider the similarities and differences between the situation of small farmers in developing countries and farmers in Cumbria.
3. Generate ideas and make recommendations for action through workshops.

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Hadrian's Wall was declared the first World Heritage Site, National Trail and international zone to get Fairtrade status in Fairtrade Fortnight 2010.  The campaign to link all of the Fairtrade towns within the Hadrian's Wall corridor took just over a year.



To celebrate achieveing Fairtrade status, a local brewer, Fiona Deal at Geltsdale Brewery, created a new ale made with Fairtrade cocoa, 'Coco Romano'

There were already many businesses and other organisations that provided Fairtrade products for their customers or staff and our aim was to raise the profile of Fairtrade even further and encourage more people to become involved.

There are now over 125 businesses supporting the Hadrian's Wall Fairtrade campaign and all 11 local authorities in the corridor have pledged to support Fairtrade.

We celebrated this achievement on Monday 22nd February with Krishnan Sainathan, a cotton manager for Agrocel, a Fairtrade company in India, and local Roman soldier Robin Brown!

Hadrian's Wall Country is a farming region that produces a wide variety of food and other goods. We strongly believe that these products should also be traded fairly and are working with Hadrian's Wall Heritage to promote this project in tandem with their 'Locally Produced' scheme.

Hadrian's Wall photographs kindly supplied by Joan Thirlaway.

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Radcliffe & Maconie on Hadrian's Wall