About Fair Trade

What is Fair Trade?

A fair trade product is made fairly with an agreement that the producers will get paid fairly. This is important because often times producers don't get paid and usually in a slavery situation. For example, in Ivory Coast children don't get paid even though they work very hard to produce items. This is also the same with many other items. 

A fair trade product is made with happiness and the producers knows that they will get certain amount of money by producing certain items but in the other hand, a non fair trade product, the producers will only get paid around about 2 cents a week or they will not even get paid at all! It is very important to buy fair trade proven items because you know it is legally and happily made and your heart will be happy at the same time because, then you had prevented some people from child labour or slavery. 

Why is it so important?

• To save people, from slaver and/or labour

• helps developing countries achieve better trading conditions and to promote sustainability

• prevent poverty, people get paid

• support power in trading relationships, unstable markets and the injustices of conventional trade

Quotes on Fair Trade

Miguel A. Altieri

Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest canopy overhead and the sound of migratory songbirds in the air, it feels like you're standing in the rainforest.

Paul Rice

Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.