Fair Trade

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Fair Trade
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Definition of Fair Trade
What is Fair trade? The Fair-trade Foundation is
the independent non-profit organization that
licenses use of the FAIRTRADE Mark on products in
the UK in accordance with internationally agreed
Fair-trade standards.  The Foundation was
established in 1992.

• Role of Fair Trade
• Providing an independent certification of the
  trade chain, licensing use of the FAIRTRADE Mark
  as a consumer guarantee on products
• Facilitating the market to grow demand for
  Fair-trade and enable producers to sell to
  traders and retailers
• Working with our partners to support producer
  organizations and their networks
• Raising public awareness of the need for
  Fair-trade and the importance of the FAIRTRADE
  Mark

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How to be part of fair trade
Sign TransFair USA's Fair Trade Coffee License
Agreement to license you to display TransFair
USA's Fair Trade Certified label on your Fair
Trade products and materials. Purchase Fair
Trade Certified coffee from importers licensed by
TransFair USA. Submit quarterly reports to
TransFair of Fair Trade Certified green coffee
purchases and roasted sales. Pay a certification
fee to TransFair USA based on Fair Trade
Certified green purchases.
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Facts about Fair trade

• How Much
• 2.6 billion - amount of total fair trade sales
  in 2006 according to the International Fair Trade
  Association
• 160 million - amount of total FTF member sales
  in 2006, according to the Fair Trade Federation
• 93 - growth in the global fair trade cocoa
  sector in 2006, according to the Fair Trade
  Labelling Organization. In 2006, coffee has
  also grown by 53 tea by 41 and, bananas by
  31.

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• Who
• 2.7 billion - estimated number of people in the
  world existing on less than 2 / day, according
  to the World Bank
• 800,000 - households (approximately 5 million
  people) who earned a living from fair
  trade production, according to the European Fair
  Trade Association's January 1998 Memento pour
  l'an 2000.  
• 30 - women in non-agricultural conventional
  production in developing countries in 2004,
  according to the United Nation 
• 70 - women engaged in non-agricultural fair
  trade production in 2004, according to the Fair
  Trade Federation
• 284,000 - number of children in the Ivory Coast,
  Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon working in hazardous
  tasks on conventional cocoa farms, according to a
  2002 International Institute of Tropical
  Agriculture study directly involving 4,500
  producers.
• 15,000 - number of children aged 9 to 12 in the
  Ivory Coast alone who have been sold into forced
  labor on conventional cotton, coffee, and cocoa
  plantations, according to a 2000 US State
  Department report

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•  Comparing Conventional and Fair Trade in Coffee
• 2 cents - amount farmers on conventional farms
  receive from the average 3 latte, according to
  Transfer USA
• 10 cents - amount of social premium paid on top
  of the per kilo price to fair trade certified
  coffee farmers, according to Fair-trade Labeling
  Organization standards
• 20 cents - amount of social premium paid on top
  of the per kilo price to fair trade certified
  coffee farmers for organic coffee, according to
  Fair-trade Labeling Organization standards

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• Other Factors
• 70 billion - amount African countries could
  generate if their share of world exports
  increased by 1 - approximately five times what
  the continent receives in aid - according to
  Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair Report.
• 30 cents of every 1 - amount of foreign
  investment that ends up back in donor countries
  through profit transfers, according to Oxfam
  International's Make Trade Fair Report.
• 13 billion - total amount required to provide
  basic education and nutrition in all developing
  countries, according to the 2005 UNICEF State of
  the World's Children Report
• 25 billion - amount spent annually on US farm
  subsidies, according to a 2007 Heritage
  Foundation report
• 40-70 billion - amount required to meet
  all eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015,
  according to the United Nations

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Products of Fair trade

• Sugar program
• The US is an important sugar grower, growing over
  80 of our domestic consumption. But the small
  amount of sugar that we do import is grown by
  impoverished sugar cane farmers in the developing
  world, subject to a declining world market price,
  environmental degradation, and hazardous working
  conditions.
• Fair Trade certification ensures that sugar cane
  farmers receive a fair price for their harvest,
  creates direct trade links between farmer-owned
  cooperatives and buyers, and provides access to
  affordable credit. Through Fair Trade, farmers
  and their families are earning a better income
  for their hard work-allowing them to hold on to
  their land, keep their kids in school, and invest
  in the quality of their harvest.

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Environmental Friendly
Large amounts of herbicides and pesticides are
commonly sprayed on to sugar cane crops. Burning
and processing of sugar crops can also cause
serious pollution of the ground, waterways and
the air. On Fair Trade farms, producers must
adhere to strict standards regarding the use and
handling of pesticides, the protection of natural
waters, virgin forest and other ecosystems of
high ecological value, and the management of
erosion and waste.Selling at Fair Trade prices
enables small sugar farmers to pay for organic
certification and training in sustainable
agriculture techniques. Paraguay and Costa Rica
grow organic Fair Trade Certified sugar cane.
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Coffee
Fair Trade helps family farmers in developing
countries to gain direct access to international
markets, as well as to develop the business
capacity necessary to compete in the global
marketplace. By learning how to market their own
harvests, Fair Trade farmers are able to
bootstrap their businesses and receive a fair
price for their products, including your morning
brew. Today's historic lows in world coffee
prices have created a crisis for millions of
farmers around the world. Most small-scale family
farmers live in remote locations, and are
dependent on local middlemen (known as "coyotes"
in Latin America) to purchase their coffee, often
at a fraction of its worth. Fair Trade guarantees
farmers a set minimum price for their coffee and
links farmer-run cooperatives directly with US
importers, cutting out middlemen and creating the
conditions for long-term sustainability.
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