Fair trade is a social movement and market-based approach that aims to empower developing country producers and promote sustainability. It advocates paying producers a fair price for goods as well as requiring social and environmental standards related to production. Fair trade focuses on exports from developing countries to developed countries, especially handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, and flowers.

1. 'Fair
trade' is an
organized social movement
and market-based
approach to
empowering developing
country producers and
promoting sustainability. The
movement advocates the
payment of a fair price as
well as social and
environmental standards in areas related to the production
of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on
exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts,
coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit and flowers.
HELP THE CHILDERN, AND THE MOTHERS, THE FATHERS, THE
GRANDPARENTS AND ALL THE FAMILYS THAT ARE STUCK IN A HELL
HOLE OF POVERTY AND DEPRESSION THAT CONSUMES FULLY ONE
HALF OF THE WORLDS POPULATION. ONE HALF. THESE PEOPLE GET
LESS THAN A DOLLER A DAY AND LIVE IN SHACKS WITH ONLY THE
FOOD THEY GROW, THIS ISN’T THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THIS IS NOW.
ALL THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY, HERE, NOW, AND ONLY WE – THE
WELL OFF AND RICH HALF OF THE WOLRD CAN HELP THEM, BECAUSE
NOBODY ELSE WILL.
EVERY DAY, FARNMERS GO TO BIG COMPANYS AND SELL THEIR
GOODS, FOR A PITTANCE. A BAG OF COFFEE BEANS THAT WILL MAKE
AROUND 100 POTS OF COFFEE WILL SELL FOR LESS THAN 25p, 25p FOR
YOUR HARD GROWN CROPS THAT YOU HAVE GROWN FOR YEARS, AND
YOU GET 25p FOR IT, NOT FAIR!
SOME PEOPLE REALISED THIS YEARS AGO AND STARTED FAIRTRADE
TO HELP TACKLE THE IMMENSE PROBLEM OF FARMERS IN POORER
COUNTRIES GETTING ALMOST NOTHING FOR THEIR GOODS. FAIRTRADE
PRODUCTS MAY BE A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT THINK WHERE
THAT MONNEY IS GOING – AN EXTRA 50p WILL MEAN £1:00 MORE TO
THE GROWERS.
AND THAT IS HOW WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD.
Early Fair-trade Certifications