Fairtrade fortnight

This week, the Country Focus team bring you a debate about the feel-good factor of Fairtrade, a fair-ly long journey to work, ponies who love mucking in and tidying up, and the narrow route to the world wide web.

Fun of the fair

It's Fairtrade fortnight and people from all over Wales are being urged to get involved. But is this label the answer to our ethical and environmental shopping dilemmas?

Join us for a discussion with Oxfam Cymru, the chairman of organic food producers Calon Wen, and a professor of agriculture at University of Wales Bangor.

A bit of a hike

Staff at one Welsh school are being urged to turn up late for class in order to save the environment. We visit Gwernyfed High School in Powys after hearing from two members of staff.

They received a big pack of advice from Powys council telling them how to use public transport to get to and from school. Now, we're all keen on anything that helps the environment, but this puzzling advice takes them all over the county.

Green little ponies

We also take a trek to Monmouthshire to see how Exmoors, one of the world's oldest pony breeds, are being used to clear and maintain an area of heathland. It's one of only a handful of schemes to use equines in conservation work.

Surfing the waves

Any finally, most of us take high speed internet access for granted, but many rural communities in Wales are still waiting to be connected to broadband. We drop in on the village in Pembrokeshire that's used its super powers to get onto the information super highway.

Country Focus - Sunday 4 March at 7.32am
(repeated 6.32pm Tuesday 6 March)

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