Fair trade means that the people who grow or make what we buy get a fair price and fair conditions. They can afford to put food on the table and send their children to school; we get great quality products.
Windward Island banana grower © Fairtrade Foundation
What the producers say
Lucy Manusah is a cocoa farmer in Ghana. She grows the quality cocoa we enjoy eating in Divine and dubble chocolate bars
”Now … I can afford the fees to send my children to school. We used to collect our water from a stream that is 3 miles walk away… - the water was very bad, our children suffered from diarrhoea. …Now we have a well for clean water paid by fairtrade.
Manjula is an Embroidery worker in India.
“It helps me in educating my children…it has created in me a kind of freedom, there is no need for me to extend my hand and ask for help and bow down before others. It has given me independence.”
Bernardo Jaen is a Pineapple farmer in Costa Rica.
“Our fruit tastes great, but in the fairtrade system it’s not enough just to produce quality. This fruit is also about the way its produced. It’s about the environment. It’s about a fair system.”
Fantastic Fairtrade Facts From The Fairtrade Foundation
Flying off the shelves
“We spent nearly half a billion (£493m) on products carrying the Fairtrade Mark in the UK in 2007 – a staggering increase of 81% on 2006 sales.”
Fair cuppa
“Every day the British public drink more than 8 million Fairtrade hot drinks.”
Go bananas
“1 in every 4 bananas sold in UK supermarkets is now Fairtrade.”
Sweet success
“Tate & Lyle are switching all their own label retail sugar to Fairtrade sugar. The move will benefit more than 6,000 farmers from Belize, who will receive Fairtrade premiums of around £2 million for investment in their community, in the first year alone.”
Pick & choose
“Now more than 3,000 products have been licensed to carry the Fairtrade Mark.”
A fairer future
“More than 7 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America benefit from Fairtrade – farmers, farm workers, and their families.”
Fairtrade fans
“Three out of five people in the UK now recognise the Fairtrade Mark and 9 out of 10 people have heard of Fairtrade.”
Changing lives
“The Fairtrade premium, an additional sum for community development, is used by farmers’ groups to build schools, provide clean drinking water, pay for sickness benefit and pilot organic conversion schemes to help farmers work for the future.”
On the move
“Fairtrade has never been an easier choice for commuters, with Virgin Trains and planes, Ryan Air, Midland Mainline, and cafes and restaurants in stations and airports across the UK, like AMT Coffee, serving Fairtrade drinks and snacks.”
Spread the word
“With Fairtrade peanut butter from Equal Exchange or Traidcraft jam and marmalade. Thanks to these products, peanut growers in Mozambique are no longer being paid peanuts.”
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