Nioka Abbott cutting bananasBanana Link is a not-for-profit co-operative based in Norwich, which works for fair and sustainable banana and pineapple trades. We raise awareness of the poor living and working conditions faced by plantation workers and small producers in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.

Fruit facts:

• Bananas are the single most profitable item sold in UK supermarkets.
• The average banana worker in Nicaragua earns 75p in an eight-hour day.
• For every £1 you spend on a Costa Rican pineapple in the UK, just 4p of this goes to the workers.
• Plantation workers in Latin America have little protection from toxic pesticides and as a result thousands of these workers have been left sterile.
• In Guatemala, four members of a banana workers’ trade union – defenders of human rights – have been murdered this year alone.

Your support can help us work to change this. Buying tropical fruit is often the closest relationship any of us have with the developing world. The consumer choices we make can – and do – have a direct impact on how people are employed and paid, and how their environment is treated.

Explore the Take Action section of this website to find out how you can help to Make Fruit Fair!

We also need your financial support to help us continue our valuable work. You can donate online or send a cheque payable to Banana Link to the address on our contact page. A donation of just £10 a year would make a huge difference.