Fair Trade

By Karolis Maciulevicius

Interactive Fair Trade

What Fair Trade is? Facts and Figures Fair Trade products The producers of Fair Trade product Where can I buy Fair Trade products? Where can I found out more about Fair Trade?

What Fair Trade is?

Fair Trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, they can join Fair Trade.
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Facts & Figures

Over the last 20 years Fairtrade sales of Fairtrade certified products have increased phenomenally. Marginalized farming communities throughout the developing world now benefit from fairer terms of trade. Through growing consumer support, Fairtrade has now achieved significant market share in many product categories in the 70 countries where Fairtrade products are sold. In some national markets Fairtrade accounts for between 2050% of market share in certain products. There are now 827 Fairtrade certified producer organizations in 58 producing countries, representing over 1.2 million farmers and workers. In addition to other benefits, approximately 52 million was distributed to communities in 2009 for use in community development. Including families and dependents, Fairtrade International estimates that six million people directly benefit from Fairtrade.

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Products from Dominican Republic

Bananas Beauty products Cocoa

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The producers of Fair Trade product

Gerardo Arias Camacho, coffee farmer, Costa Rica Gerardo is married with three children. The coffee he grows on half of his 5 hectare (12 acres) farm provides virtually all of his cash income. On the rest of his land he keeps several cows and grows vegetables, beans, corn, bananas, oranges and mangoes for family consumption. The farm takes up most of his time so on a typical day he gets up at 5am and works in his fields from six in the morning until five or six in the evening. Even putting in these long hours, Gerardo has struggled to make ends meet for the last five or six years when world coffee prices have fallen as low as 45 cents a kilo. He needs to earn 60-70 cents a kilo just to cover costs of production and a further $1,000 a year to cover his familys outgoings. Menu

Where I can buy Fair Trade products?

ASDA Morrisons Sainsburys Tesco

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Where I can found out more about Fair Trade?

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