What is your interest in Fairtrade?
- Buying Fairtrade
- Selling Fairtrade
- Researching Fairtrade
- Supporting Fairtrade
- Reporting on Fairtrade
- Working for Fairtrade
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New Workers' Rights Strategy for Fairtrade
Fairtrade is changing its approach to hired labour. The Fairtrade International Board unanimously approved a new global workers’ rights strategy based on recommendations from partners within the Fairtrade system, including workers’ representatives. It will guide us in helping workers become active participants in the decisions that impact their lives.
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- Valentine Chinchay of the cooperative FAPECAFES in Ecuador harvests coffee. Photo by Didier Gentilhomme
Celebrating Cooperatives
2012 is the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). We are proud of all of the Fairtrade cooperatives and will showcase a number of them throughout the year on our website and on our Tumblr blog.
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Wake up to Fairtrade!
World Fair Trade Day is on May 12. Why not gather with friends for a Fairtrade Breakfast? Not only will you enjoy delicious food and drink, but you will support farmers and workers in developing countries, and join people across the globe in the push for fairer trade terms.
Last year, people in more than 20 countries held breakfasts large and small with Fairtrade products in April and May.
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Long-Term Loans for Small Producers
Incofin Investment Management, Fairtrade International and Grameen Foundation are partnering on the Fairtrade Access Fund, an international investment fund dedicated with providing producers with access to long-term finance. Starbucks is the first major investor with US$1.3m (€1m) committed. The Fund will offer investors both financial and demonstrable social results.
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Highlighting Fairtrade Impact
Around the world, over 1.15 million farmers and workers benefit from participation in Fairtrade. “Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade” is an 80-page report that covers everything from the country with the highest number of Fairtrade farmers (Tanzania with 148,200), to the total area of land under cultivation with Fairtrade products (1,184,400 hectares).
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Join us at the Sustainable Foods Summit
The Sustainable Foods Summit is a series of summits hosted by Organic Monitor that focuses on the leading issues the food industry faces concerning sustainability and eco-labels. The European edition takes place 7-8 June in Amsterdam and Fairtrade International's Senior Coffee and Tea Adviser will present.
