
Farm incomes are falling, farmers' average age is now almost sixty and the number of small farms in Northern Ireland is in steady decline. Small farmers are threatened with extinction.
Many supermarkets promote fair trade products such as tea, coffee, sugar and bananas. Meanwhile, these same supermarkets are denying our farmers a fair price for their produce.
The time has come for fairly traded beef, milk, potatoes and apples.
Our report represents a vision for the relocalising of Northern Ireland's food economy. And our briefing (PDF† 106K) describes how others have managed it.
Relocalising Northern Ireland's food economy would:
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