I’ve just returned to work after an interrailing holiday round Europe. One of my stops was Holland, home to Max Havelaar, a Dutch fairtrade company. Max Havelaar was the first initiative,  under the development agency Solidaridad, to launch a fairtrade label back in 1988. For more information see http://www.maxhavelaar.ch/en

Anyone planning a visit to Amsterdam could follow in my footsteps by calling into a great little supermarket called Marqt (see http://www.marqt.com/) then strolling along to the Vondelpark for a picnic.

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