C’est mardi 9 janvier

All information can be found on Fair Trade

website

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What is Fair Trade?

• The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal

Background

• Development agencies recognised the important role that consumers could play to improve the situation for producers.

• By buying direct from farmers at better prices, helping to strengthen their organisations and marketing their produce directly through their own one world shops and catalogues, the charities offered consumers the opportunity to buy products which were bought on the basis of a fair trade.

• Fairtrade Labelling was created in the Netherlands in the late 1980s.

• The Max Havelaar Foundation launched the first Fairtrade consumer guarantee label in 1988 on coffee sourced from Mexico.

• Today you can find Fairtrade Labelling in 20 countries including the UK.

• For a product to display the FAIRTRADE Mark it must meet international Fairtrade standards. These standards are set by the international certification body Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO).

Les produits

• Les pommes les avocats• Les bananes les prunes• Les raisins les melons• Les citrons le café• Les citrons verts le thé• Les mangues le chocolat• Les ananas le coton• Les poires • Les ballons de sport

Food Products

Bananas Nut/Oil Seeds Purees

Cocoa JuicesCoffee RiceSpices TeaDried Fruit SugarFresh Fruit WineFresh Vegetables Honey

Non-food products

CottonCut flowersOrnamental flowersSports balls

Problems…

• Problems faced by poor producers/workers in developing countries differ greatly from product to product.

• Example: Majority of coffee and cocoa is grown by independent small farmers, working their own land and marketing their produce.

Receiving a fair price for their beans• Most tea is grown on estates workers on

tea plantations main concern is fair wages and decent working conditions.

Traders must…

• pay a price to producers  that covers the costs of

sustainable production and living; • pay a 'premium' that producers can invest in

development; • make partial advance payments when requested

by producers;  • sign contracts that allow for long-term planning

and sustainable production practices. 

Where can I buy Fair Trade products?

Supermarkets

Asda, Co-op, Marks and Spencer,

Tesco, Sainsburys, Spar, Waitrose,

SomerfieldCoffee Shops

Costa, Marks and Spencer Café

Revive, Starbucks, Pret a Manger

Shops

Holland and Barrett, National Union of

Student shops, Oxfam, Woolworths

Online

People Tree, Top Shop, Hug, Ethical

shopper, New consumer shop