A bouquet of flowers is the go-to gift for many special occasions, but the world is paying a high price for out of season blooms, including right here in Australia.
This week on Foreign Correspondent, reporter Isabella Higgins travels to the Netherlands, the country at the centre of this trade. There, the flower industry is grappling with how to tackle the climate crisis and soaring energy costs.
But as the industry struggles to reduce its carbon footprint its also facing greater competition from low-cost alternatives. The European flower markets are under pressure from growers in Africa who are producing cheaper flowers that often end up in supermarkets in Australia.
Isabella travels to Kenya where the cheap prices we enjoy at the checkout come at the cost of workers who can least afford it.
Chapters:
00:00 - Where in the World do your flowers come from?
02:07 - Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Home of the Flower trade.
05:16 - The Global Flower Auction
08:56 - How African Flowers go Global
11:40 - Lake Naivasha, the heart of Kenyan flowers
13:40 - Inside wildfire flowers
16:04 - The local environmental impact of flower growing
17:37 - What is it like to work in the flower farms
20:11 - How flowers get their prices and the impact on the sellers and workers
21:39 - Kenyas Human Rights investigations into the flower industry
23:12 - The toll of working in Kenyas flower farms
25:24 - Some women say its impossible to live on a flower farm wage
27:28 - Should you still buy flowers?
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