We were taught to serve, to be workers. Now with Fairtrade, we are entrepreneurs.
Martial Quintero, banana producer, Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples Bananera del Atlantico, Panama
News and Features
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Partnering for Equality: How Fairtrade and Aldi UK Are Elevating the Fight for Women’s Empowerment
Article posted: 8 Mar 2022
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Strong Women, Strong Cooperatives, Strong Coffee
Article posted: 7 Mar 2022
A group of Rwandan women are bucking usual gender stereotypes by producing a coffee grown and processed entirely by women. Now they have succeeded in getting their coffee placed in one of Germany’s ...
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Making sense of the EU’s HREDD proposal - a conversation with Fairtrade’s Dr. Tytti Nahi
Article posted: 24 Feb 2022
We spoke to Dr. Tytti Nahi, Fairtrade Lead on Business and Human Rights, about how she views the European Commission’s HREDD proposal and what impact she expects it to have in delivering fairness to ...
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Meet some of the experts behind the Fairtrade Coffee School
Article posted: 22 Feb 2022
We sat down with two of the coffee experts behind the initiative to discuss what they love about the industry and its challenges
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Digitalizing for Fairness
Article posted: 21 Feb 2022
How Fairtrade is Leveraging Digital Tools to Build a Fairer Future for All
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The EU’s Deforestation Proposal Must Do More for Smallholder Farmers
Article posted: 16 Feb 2022
The European Commission’s legislative proposal is a ‘groundbreaking’ step towards combating deforestation. But it cannot abandon smallholders in the process.
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On Valentine’s Day, Fairtrade Flowers Mean Gender Equality - An Interview with Fairtrade Africa's Gender Coordinator Susan Limisi
Article posted: 11 Feb 2022
Valentine’s Day is a day for love, romance, and fragrant floral bouquets. But we can also make it a day for gender equality. That’s because when it comes to Fairtrade flowers, more than half of the ...
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Statement on Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai Aftermath
Article posted: 8 Feb 2022
Fairtrade is closely monitoring the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai in southeastern Africa amid reports that a number of Fairtrade certified farms were directly impacted by at ...
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How Fairtrade and B Corp Companies are strengthening supply chains and shaping a stakeholder economy
Article posted: 2 Feb 2022
Companies with both Fairtrade and B Corp Certification are setting the pace on SDG progress
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A banana price crunch is hitting banana farmers and workers hard. Fairtrade’s Silvia Campos explains why
Article posted: 26 Jan 2022
Amid spiking production costs for packing materials and fertilizers combined with the economic fallout of climate change, COVID-19, and the fight against plant diseases like Fusarium TR4, banana ...
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