Category: About Fairtrade

On the 31 October the Fairtrade Foundation took part in the Virtual Global Coffee Festival by hosting a panel discussion titled: ‘Fairtrade Presents: The Women Behind…

10 facts about Fairtrade chocolate. What was the first ever Fairtrade chocolate bar and where does cocoa grow? Read this to find out.

Fairtrade has always had justice at its heart. We fight the injustices of global trade, where the power balance is too often uneven, leaving many farmers and workers in poverty.

Despite coffee’s popularity and lucrative value, the average non-Fairtrade coffee farmer lives on as little as £1.37 a day. How can this be?

What does it mean when a product is labelled Fairtrade? And does that mean the product is also organic?

Think all chocolate is the same? And what about all the different sustainability labels you find on supermarket shelves? Think again…

Co-ops are at the heart of what we do and what we believe in here at Fairtrade. We work with a large number of co-ops and actively encourage farmers to form themselves into co-ops rather than tackle the issues they face as individuals

Tackling climate change is at the heart of the fair trade movement, as it threatens the livelihoods of those we are working to protect.

Over the past few months, we have seen the power and importance of community across the world.

Natural vanilla has drawn attention in recent years due to its soaring price, rivalling even silver in 2017. While that might on the surface seem like a good thing for vanilla farmers, the instability of the market for the world’s second most expensive spice (after saffron) does much more harm than good.