Ms Clarke said more than 50% of the island's Anglican churches now use Fairtrade products.
BBC: Isle of Man's 'Fairtrade island status' renewed until 2015
This then drives down the price of non-Fairtrade coffee even further, making non-Fairtrade farmers poorer.
Bruce Crowther, Garstang Fairtrade campaign founder, said it "maintains Garstang as the beacon for Fairtrade".
The FIG Tree in Garstang features a Fairtrade heritage exhibition, cafe and gift shop.
There are currently 11 Fairtrade islands across the British Isles, including Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Wight.
BBC: Isle of Man's 'Fairtrade island status' renewed until 2015
Fairtrade producers can use the premiums they receive to make the necessary investments to diversify into other crops.
The new website offers a directory of island suppliers offering Fairtrade products.
BBC: Isle of Man's 'Fairtrade island status' renewed until 2015
John Clark, manager of East of Scotland League club Whitehill Welfare, is also backing the use of Fairtrade balls.
BBC: Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove are supporting the campaign
Another objection to Fairtrade is that certification is predicated on political assumptions about the best way to organise labour.
Garstang, which is a few miles north of Preston, was officially granted Fairtrade town status on 22 November 2001.
The people of Garstang voted to become a Fairtrade town in April 2000.
Conservative MSP John Scott said "fairtrade is one of those ideas, one of those concepts, whose time has truly come".
And the local-food movement's aims, of course, contradict those of the Fairtrade movement, by discouraging rich-country consumers from buying poor-country produce.
But perhaps the most cogent objection to Fairtrade is that it is an inefficient way to get money to poor producers.
The first Fairtrade "international centre" has opened in a Lancashire town 10 years after it became the world's first Fairtrade town.
The government is also encouraging more local firms to sell Fairtrade products.
BBC: Isle of Man's 'Fairtrade island status' renewed until 2015
Fairtrade's price-adjustment mechanism is intended to insulate small producers from volatile commodity markets and the free-trading, no-holds-barred capitalism that multinational companies espouse.
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Mr Harford calculates that only 10% of the premium paid for Fairtrade coffee in a coffee bar trickles down to the producer.
There are now 526 Fairtrade towns in the UK and 1, 070 in 23 countries worldwide who have followed the market town's lead.
They include a pricier Fairtrade range that includes stickers of mosques around the world and a book on why Muslims should recycle.
There are now 554 Fairtrade towns in the UK and 1, 235 globally.
"There are so many successes which you should be proud of, from setting up the website to the achievement of a Fairtrade Diocese".
BBC: Isle of Man's 'Fairtrade island status' renewed until 2015
Cadbury was criticised by the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell after a fairtrade chocolate company redesigned its purple advent box on its lawyers' advice.
But firms are finding ways to improve the lot of small farmers, and burnish their own reputations, without signing up to Fairtrade's rules.
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The Fairtrade balls were promoted during a match between Whitehill Welfare and Kelso United in the East of Scotland League Premier Division on Saturday.
BBC: Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove are supporting the campaign
Mr Bretman says the rules vary from commodity to commodity, but are intended to ensure that the Fairtrade system helps those most in need.
Mr Adam was leading a debate on the 'Take a step in 2012' campaign which marks the start of fairtrade fortnight, on 23 February 2012.
Ms Hyslop said Scotland it was a year round challenge to promote fairtrade and that Scotland had always been "an outward, innovative and caring nation".
Retailers add their own enormous mark-ups to Fairtrade products and mislead consumers into thinking that all of the premium they are paying is passed on.
Guaranteeing a minimum price also means there is no incentive to improve quality, grumble coffee-drinkers, who find that the quality of Fairtrade brews varies widely.
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