date:Feb 26, 2014
bananas. This, combined with escalating production and living costs, means many farmers and workers standards of living have progressively worsened in the past decade.
Small farmers and plantation workers are the collateral damage in supermarket price wars. The poorest people are bearing the cost of our cheap bananas and they have to work harder and harder as what they earn is worth less and less in their communities. As a result, a product that is worth billions of pounds in global trade relie