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The “Fair Week” in Gauting offers the opportunity to find out about “fair” trade. It started with a reading.


The “Fair Week” in Gauting offers the opportunity to find out more about “fair” trade. It all started with a reading.

Gauting

- “Fair instead of more” is the motto this time: At a reading by Frank Hermann, author of the books “FAIReisen” and “Fair shopping - but how?”, Gauting's Mayor Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger held the “Fair Week” on Thursday in the Kirchheim bookstore.

A highlight will be the drawing of the Fairtrade prizes at the city cycling awards ceremony on Wednesday in the “Treffpunkt” in Stockdorf, she emphasized and praised the commitment of the steering group around environmental manager Wilhelm Rodrian.

“With a lot of time and energy, the steering group managed to organize an offer that was at least as great as last year,” says Kössinger happily.

The Würmtalgemeinde has been one of almost 700 Farirtrade communities in Germany for eight years.

"We have thus committed ourselves to support and promote the idea of ​​fair action," emphasized the mayor.

"Each of us can contribute to more justice - locally, but above all globally."

Some of the broadly placed listeners, due to the corona, opened their eyes during the reading with information on "fair trade".

Business economist and fair bike tour organizer Frank Herrmann talked about coffee growing in South America, which is endangered by climate change.

By 2050, according to pessimistic studies, 90 percent of sensitive plants will have disappeared due to drought.

The green bean of the golden coffee "d'Oro" is the main source of income for the farmers in Guatemala.

In the past, the farmers were "ripped off" by middlemen in terms of prices, reported the author, who lived there for a time.

Coffee farmers now have a chance through direct marketing, access to the Internet, smartphones and “fair trade” in cooperation with a fair roasting company in Germany.

“I wanted to give something back,” said the organizer of “fair” tours.

That is why he supports development aid projects in Peru.

It is up to the consumer to change the situation: Although there are products with the “fair” seal in discounters, the discounters benefit from the customer's money and not the local farmer.

He always gets the same money.

The business economist listed 85 percent of the German grocery trade in just four chains, namely Edeka with Netto, Rewe with Penny, the Schwarzgruppe with Lidl and Kaufland and the Aldi group.

According to the current supermarket check by development aid organizations under the title “Oxfam”, Edeka came off worst.

Lidl was initially even a pioneer and in autumn 2018 only had "fair trade" bananas in its range.

Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) asked for imitation.

But it turned out differently: Competitor Aldi advertised bananas from Ecuador at 66 cents per kilo instead of 1.49 euros.

Because the customers bought the rest of them from Aldi, Lidl “backed down,” recalls the author.

And because Lidl now has three types of bananas next to each other, customers bought the cheapest again.

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Next date of the "fair week"

The next date of the “Fair Week” in Gauting is next Monday, from 6.30 p.m., the award ceremony for city cycling with a raffle and presentation of bamboo bikes at the “meeting point” on Harmsplatz in Stockdorf.

Registration: wilhelm.rodrian@gauting.de.

Source: merkur

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