Fair trade demands equality, respect, and sustainability at all levels of society.
How Fair Trade benefits:
Producers
- Empowers producers as stakeholders in their own organization,
- Empowers producers to achieve greater equity in international trade,
- Provides social and environmental standards for production,
- Ensures healthy living conditions and safe working environments
- Establishes a fair price for products
- Provides economic security and self-sufficiency
- Provides a steady market for handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate and flowers
Consumers
- Provides access to quality agricultural and artisan items, often not available in our own hemisphere
- Allows the consumer to support social and economic justice with his or her pocketbook.
- Provides a wide selection of arts and crafts which enhance our lives and increase our appreciation of other cultures
Global Community
- Provides a model for long-term trade relationships, which can generate revenue to provide health clinics, education, and other services
- Provides entrepreneurial education and opportunity, to formerly disadvantaged producers.
- Encourages environmentally sustainable practices in farming and use of natural resources.
For more information:
Check out these Organizations to learn about national and international fair trade initiatives or to get involved with the fair trade movement.
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