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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What do new shoes, new houses and new wheelbarrows have in common?
Article posted: 18 Jan 2021
Fairtrade Premium funds improve the lives and livelihoods of sugar growing communities in Eswatini. From new homes, to wheelbarrows and shoes for children.
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Five reasons why Fairtrade is the global movement for trade justice
Article posted: 15 Jan 2021
We believe trade justice is critical and therefore drive efforts, together with actors across the world, to make it happen. Here are five reasons (among many) why Fairtrade is a global movement for ...
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Fairtrade announces two new leadership appointments
Article posted: 11 Jan 2021
Fairtrade International is pleased to announce two interim leadership appointments ahead of CEO Dario Soto Abril’s departure in February.
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Highlighting the need for climate justice in a year dominated by COVID-19
Article posted: 8 Jan 2021
With COVID-19, it is tempting to put other critical issues, such as climate change, aside. However, in an effort to drive progress forward, world leaders spoke virtually at the Climate Ambition ...
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Thailand’s Next Generation of Farmers
Article posted: 28 Dec 2020
Young people are the future of agriculture – but hardly any of them want to become farmers. In Thailand, young people from Fairtrade farming families learnt about sustainable agriculture
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An uncertain future for Latin American cocoa farmers
Article posted: 17 Dec 2020
Latin America was one of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, but without Fairtrade support it would have been a lot worse, says Basilio Almonte, Cocoa Coordinator at the Latin American ...
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Fairtrade Takes Big Step towards Living Wages for Banana Workers
Press release posted: 15 Dec 2020
The new Fairtrade Base Wage marks a unique move towards a living wage, benefitting thousands of banana planatation workers.
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Cooperative spirit helps West African cocoa farmers through the COVID crisis
Article posted: 15 Dec 2020
Along with small-scale farmers the world over, West African cocoa producers were hit by the pandemic. The Fairtrade Relief Fund came at just the right time when the producers needed it most
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The Increasing Value of Sustainability among consumers
Article posted: 14 Dec 2020
How willing are consumers to purchase products made in a fair and ethical way? Does that change across countries? These, and many other questions, were explored as part of the Trade Fair Live Fair ...
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New Fairtrade study highlights successes and ways forward towards gender equality
Article posted: 10 Dec 2020
The study focuses on six Fairtrade coffee cooperatives in Guatemala, Indonesia and Kenya, and how they made progress on inclusion, empowerment and transformative change.
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