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Cultivating an ethical flower trade |
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Called
FFP - Fair Flowers and Plants - it will be
introduced first in Europe, but aims to become
a global system.
The details are reported in the BBC World
Service programme Earth Files.
Environmental and social campaigners say it
will help to eliminate abuses in the
global flower industry, such as overuse of
pesticides, child labour, and discrimination.
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Industry codes |
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The flower industry has received
some unwelcome publicity in recent years,
as activists have raised these issues in the
West.
As a result, there has been an explosion in
codes of practice for growers and exporters
The Kenya Flower Council, or KFC, the principal
trade body for growers in Kenya, has one such
code. The council's chair, Erasmus Mureithi,
told Earth Files what farms must do if they
want to join |
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Flower power |
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Other
codes of practice are international, the best
known being the Dutch MPS (Milieu Programma
Sierteelt).
And in the UK, many supermarkets now buy directly
from growers, and demand adherence to yet
more sets of ethical standards.
Because of this plethora of codes, some farms
may subscribe to three, four, or even more
different sets of standards, which growers
say is confusing and wasteful.
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