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25/08/2010

Coffee prices are at a twelve year high, BHP Billiton looks to buy Canada's Potash Corporation and a possible trade war over the fishing of Mackerel in the North Sea.

Wake Up To Money with Rebecca Marston and Jeremy Naylor:

With coffee prices reaching a twelve year high this week, we ask what these high prices mean and the impact on the Fair Trade movement. We talk to Simon Bower, the Managing Director of Pollards Tea and Coffee and Nick Mathiason, Policy Adviser to the Fairtrade Foundation.

Fertiliser is dominating the business pages this summer, as BHP Billiton looks to buy Canada's Potash Corporation. We ask Sean Rickard, senior lecturer in Business Economics at Cranfield School of Management and former chief economist for the National Farmers Union, why BHP are making the bid.

The EU faces a potential trade war with Iceland and the Faeroe Islands over the fishing of Mackerel in the North Sea. Ian Gatt, chief executive of the Scottish Pelagic Fisherman's Association, explains the dispute.

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