ipal de lavamanos andre bull ⓒ christina guerrero ⓒedgar pinto investments in working conditions for workers and on environmental practices and so under fairtrade we don't want to see those corners cut," says coleman product which doesn't reflect that kind fairtrade banana a little bit more expen- protecting the environment in addition to improving farmworker lessening the environmental impacts of agricultural businesses farms are expected to reduce the amount of pesticides used on crops in conjunction with pesticide-management to eat other pests that are harmful to boxes holding a liquid that attracts and traps pesky insects are placed around the perimeters some farms also use vacuum- cleaner-like machines that suck up biology teams that produce beneficial fight pathogens that are harmful to voirs or water desalination plants to water for the crops through drip irriga- tion systems or micro sprinklers instead about 60% of the water is carried away by wind or lost to evaporation tive built a water supply system that collects 30% of the water used on the plantation that was previously washed bananas and improves productivity by cutting the amount of time it takes to water the crops from four hours to two continued on page 28
