This may be Fairtrade Fortnight but every day is Fairtrade Day for Rebecca Smith.

The 25-year-old has made it her mission to eat only food which is ethically traded or produced locally and organically.

She browses markets, supermarkets and organic butchers and buys Fairtrade clothes and gifts. Even her job and her partner are Fairtrade-friendly.

Rebecca is one of a growing number of people realising the way they eat can affect others' lives. She says she would rather shop with a conscience.

Buying Fairtrade chocolate means farmers in Belize get a decent price for their cocoa. Buying Sussex free-range eggs means local farmers do not have to sell at discounts to supermarkets.

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, Rebecca compiled a diary to show how it is possible to live on Fairtrade products.

She said: "I always try to buy Fairtrade and if I can't I try to get local, organic produce.

"It just takes a bit of organisation. I shop locally and make sure I buy enough fresh food to last a couple of days."

Rebecca became interested in Fairtrade when she took a job in project management at the Co-operative Group while living in Manchester in 2001.

She said: "The Co-op is a big pioneer in Fairtrade. I've been really into it since."

Rebecca moved to Brighton with boyfriend Tom MacMillan last June.

Tom, 26, works for the Food Ethics Council at the Brighton Eco Centre, which campaigns to promote ethical thinking in food production.

After moving to the Hanover area, Rebecca became involved in the Brighton and Hove Fairtrade Group.

One of the organisation's aims is to make Brighton and Hove the first Fairtrade city in the South-East. This would involve having a certain proportion of shops and cafes selling Fairtrade goods.

The group is busy for Fairtrade Fortnight, which this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Fairtrade mark.

Events in Brighton have included a coffee giveaway at cafes, a children's tea party and talks with a Belize farmer helped by the Fairtrade Foundation.

Rebecca, a waitress at Fairtrade cafe Queen's Perk in Queen's Park Road, Brighton, hopes to open an ethical fashion boutique. Lewes-based Gossypium (www.gossypium.co.uk), which produces fairly-traded organic cotton clothes such as sportswear, is a favourite haunt.

She also shops at People Tree (www.ptree.co.uk) and Traid in Duke Street, Brighton, which sells second-hand customised clothes, with profits going to aid projects in developing countries.

Hug (www.hug.co.uk) in London also offers trendy, fairly-traded organic cotton T-shirts.

For more information on Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs until Sunday, visit www.bhft.org.uk To find out about the Food Ethics Council, see www.foodethicscouncil.org