Fair trade

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Fair trade
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Fairtrade standards for small farmers and workers

• coffee and cocoa
• grown by independent small farmers, working their
  own land and marketing their produce through a
  local co-operative
• ? most important fair price for their beans
• tea
• grown on estates, employed workers
• ? most important fair wages and decent working
  conditions

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Producer standards

• small farmers
• organised in co-operatives with a democratic,
  participative structure
• organised workers
• employers pay decent wages,
• guarantee the right to join trade unions,
• provide good housing when relevant,
• on plantations and in factories, minimum health
  and safety,
• environmental standards,
• no child or forced labour

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• Producer organisations
• continuously improve working conditions and
  product quality
• increase their environmental stability of their
  activities
• invest in the development of their organisations
  and the welfare of their producers/workers

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Food Products

• Bananas
• Cocoa
• Coffee
• Dried Fruit
• Fresh Fruit Fresh Vegetables
• Honey
• Juices

• Nuts/Oil Seeds and Purees
• Quinoa
• Rice
• Spices
• Sugar
• Tea
• Wine

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Non-Food Products

• Cotton
• Cut Flowers
• Ornamental Plants
• Sports Balls
• http//www.fairtrade.org.uk