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...With fair trade, there is the added value of transparency,” he said. Bonanno is more skeptical, however. “There’s a lot of people who say they would pay more for local products on surveys, but they rarely do so at a supermarket,” he said...
...This shift in dietary preferences and agricultural trends has created investment opportunities in supermarket, food-manufacturing and logistics companies in a number of developing countries. Consider China and India, the world's two most populous nations. Food spending in China is expected to grow 6.7% annually over the next 20 years, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing food markets, according to the McKinsey Quarterly. And in India, urban shoppers are spending more on food, groceries and personal-care items than ever before; the average monthly expenditure on these purchases jumped 14% in 2005 from 2004. According...
...course of 15 years, he watched the market share of Australian wines soar from about 1% to more than 21% now - five percentage points ahead of the French - as British drinking habits shifted. Wine has now overtaken beer as the nation's most popular drink, driven in part by supermarket chains such as Tesco and Sainsbury that have made it affordable. Pubs are getting in on the act, too. One chain, J.D. Wetherspoon, is even starting to serve wine on draught at its 650 pubs...
...facing a squeeze. The global wine glut has caused a drop in grape prices, and producers had to scramble to deal with a 50% appreciation in the rand between 2002 and 2005 that pushed them out of the sector in which they initially made their name: cheap and cheerful supermarket wines for the U.K. That hurts, but the glut's impact isn't as severe as it is in Australia or France. The South African solution has been to stake out the middle ground, where it hopes it can offer good quality and good value. It wants to avoid...
...coincidence the British debate surrounds a teaching assistant who refused to take off her full-face veil around male colleagues. Niqabs in school are an even more delicate issue than niqabs at the supermarket or the park, for teachers serve as role models to children, and the niqab sends a controversial message that may or may not be appropriate in the classroom. Even more so than the headscarf, the niqab is premised on the traditional Muslim belief that uncovered women are sexually stimulating to men, who are presumed to be incapable of controlling themselves. In a Muslim society where many...