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How do customers know which products are Fairtrade products?
The standard Fairtrade Mark on the left is one of the most trusted certification marks. It signifies that ‘All that can be Fairtrade, is Fairtrade’ in the product. This applies to both single-ingredient products like coffee, but also to composite products like chocolate. Gold and Cotton both have their own Marks.
Where does the Fairtrade money go?
Over and above the Fairtrade price, the Fairtrade Premium is an additional sum of money which goes into a communal fund for workers and farmers to use – as they see fit – to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.
How does buying Fairtrade products help the environment?
How Fairtrade protects the environment. Environmental protection is ingrained in Fairtrade. To sell Fairtrade products, farmers have to improve soil and water quality, manage pests, avoid using harmful chemicals, manage waste, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and protect biodiversity.
How does Fairtrade impact the community?
Fairtrade empowers farmers by helping them organize into cooperatives. This improves their negotiating position within the supply chain. The Fairtrade Premium is often invested in projects which benefit entire communities, such as health facilities, schools, housing, and clean water.
What do consumers think about fair trade?
84% of consumers have trust in the Fairtrade Mark, and Fairtrade’s work in providing fair prices, a living income and helping farmers to escape from poverty is crucial to this trust.
What happens when you buy fair trade products?
The more sales, the more premium to invest in the community, the more produce is protected by the Fairtrade Minimum Price which guarantees the farm will at least get the cost of production in times of global price crash, and more money comes to the co-operative group that can be spent on projects to benefit the wider …
How does Fair Trade help the environment and promote sustainability?
Fairtrade works with farmers to improve the volume and quality of their crops, while reducing the impact on natural resources, the environment, or water tables. We will also help farmers advocate at governmental level to obtain support for adaptation and mitigation efforts.
Who benefits from Fair Trade?
Income sustainability: Fair trade helps producers set minimum prices, which help protect fair trade farmers and workers against erratic market prices. If the market price for a commodity drops, the minimum price ensures the farmers and workers still earn enough to cover the basic costs of living.
What did Fairtrade banana farmer Diomedes say?
In the words of Fairtrade banana farmer Diomedes, ‘Fairtrade is freedom, it’s communication, it’s sustainability, it’s empowerment, it’s everything for us in a world that’s so competitive’.
How does the Fairtrade Foundation get its money?
The Fairtrade Foundation receives a licence fee, paid by companies using the FAIRTRADE Mark on their products, which constitutes over 85% of the Fairtrade Foundation’s income. The licence fee covers the cost of monitoring and certification which underpins the independent guarantee offered by the FAIRTRADE Mark.
How does Fairtrade help farmers in the developing world?
If your question is not answered below please visit the Contact us page. Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.
How does fairtrade work with the banana industry?
Fairtrade works with banana farmers, workers employed on plantations and with the banana trade to create more value for producers and ensure people get a decent price and decent pay for the hard labour that goes into growing this crop.