Fair Trade

Spokane, Washington, USA

Fair trade is where the farmers gowning the produce (e.g. bananas or coco beans) are paid what they deserve, not a small amount. This means that the farmers benefit from fair trade, and we lose out. Despite the fact that we lose out, it is still important to buy it as it is creating a fairer society and economy.

Fair Trade effects the envirment because we have to pay a little bjit more so the famers nget their share of the money

Fair trade work in 59 developing countries, with 650 producer groups changing the lives of 7.5 million people; there are 33 cotton producer groups in India, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Brazil, Egypt, Peru and Kyrgyzstan. India and West Africa are the largest cotton producers in the world.

# Fairtrade cotton - is cotton that has been grown (known as seed cotton before ginning) by farming groups that have been certified by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) against the Fairtrade Standard for Seed Cotton - which covers environmental, social and economic aspects. # As of June 2009 certified producers (ie farmer groups) are to be found in - Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Egypt, Peru, India and Kyrgyzstan. Graham Burden Sustainable Textile Solutions Ltd (UK)

• The concept of 'fair trade' has been around for over 40 years but a formal labelling scheme didn't get off the ground until the late 1980s.

  In 1988: launch of the first Trade label, Max Havelaar, under the initiative of the Dutch development agency. The first 'Fairtrade' coffee from Mexico was sold into Dutch supermarkets. It was branded "Max Havelaar," after a fictional Dutch character who opposed the exploitation of coffee pickers in Dutch colonies

• This may not be the exact answer you are looking for, but i hope it helps
• it was started in 1997 by the mayor

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Fair trade bananas may cost more, but will benefit the farmers from rural populations a lot more and are considered by many to be "A fairer choice". However in normal bananas the highest amount of profit is generated by the Supermarket.

Fair trade commodities can come from any country.

Fair trade means the buyer paying a fair price and making a fair profit when the buyer sells it on and not exploiting the producer or the final customer.

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The main intent of fair trade is of course to provide advantages to the producers, which results in only indirect advantages for the customers. Still, a bit more stability for the globalised world, a better conscience, and of course taking part in making this world a better place, aren't things to be sneezed at.

But there are also some direct advantages: Fair Trade production relies mostly on handcrafting, which results in each piece being unique. Similarly, the resources of Fair Trade foodstuff and cosmetics aren't grown by industrialised farming (heavily using chemical fertiliser and pesticides); instead, it is not uncommon for these products to be certified organic. Also, a big part of Fair Trade (if not the main part) is the information about the products and the producers, which every salesperson in a Fair Trade shop should be able to provide.

To me, the best thing about buying in a Fair Trade shop is the choice of singular 'gems' you rarely find in other shops. Ever heard of purple rice? Or of wild coffee? The weird (but tasty!) chocolate creations by Josef Zotter (Austria) are AFAIK available outside of Fair Trade shops, but I first saw and savoured them in the Fair Trade shop where I work as a volunteer.

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No. Hershey's, Nestle, Mars, all of the big makers aren't fair trade. About 40% of their cocoa is made from slave labour. They buy off the international market, so they claim they cannot differentiate between fair trade and not fair trade.

In the UK more than 7 billion bananas are eaten each year. (I'm not sure if that's fairtrade though.)

"Fair Trade" Certification involves a very lengthy process and a lot of money given to a 3rd party (not the farmer or the purchaser) to earn the status of certified. So with the exception of Cafe Estima Blend, Starbucks coffee is not all fair trade certified....however it does meet all the requirements for certification. Starbucks gives the monetary support back to the farmers instead of giving it to a third party. The same facts apply to Starbucks organic coffee...there is one organic blend. the rest meet the requirements, until it is ground, but money is not wasted on the certification.

no it isn't

Fair trade refers to the buying of goods in an ethical manner. Some pomegranates are bought this way.

Fair trade coffee comes from Uganda, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Columbia. Coffee is one of the ten types of fair-trade products and in 2003; £34m worth of coffee was sold. The first Fairtrade coffee in the United Kingdom was called Campaign Coffee and the second one Encafe.

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No, Galaxy is made by the company Mars Incorporated, not Nestle.