Fair trade
Fair trade is a social movement which tries to help people who make things in developing countries. The movement helps people to work in better conditions and helps them get more money for what they make. These things give workers the opportunity to improve their lives and plan for their future, and they help reduce poverty. The movement also tries to keep the environment the same or improve the state that it is in. it is a way to help poverty
Fair trade helps people in developing countries sell to people in developed countries. Things that are sold in international trade include handicrafts and other manufactured goods, agricultural products such as grains, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, quinoa, fresh fruit, chocolate, wine and flowers, and minerals such as iron and petroleum.
Merchandise that has fair trade status must be given a fair trade certificate. This says it follows rules about fairness to workers and the environment. This will mean the product can put the Fairtrade symbol on their packaging if they earn the certificate.
Fair Trade Media
Fair trade tea purchased in Italy.
Fairtrade bananas from the Dominican Republic
Three young Nicaraguan women demonstrate to visiting U.S. buyers and consumers the use of organic soil testing methods.
Fair trade goods sold in worldshops
Cafedirect coffee shop on Regent Street in central London.
Oxfam shop on Drury Lane in Covent Garden, London
Fair trade coffee beans being sorted
Display of Fairtrade products at the Derbyshire County Council head office
Related pages
Other websites
- FLO International
- FLO-CERT Archived 2020-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
