Fairtrade blog

Try this amazing Meringue Girls’ pavlova letters recipe, packed with delicious Fairtrade ingredients.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted just how connected we all are, not just in our towns and cities but also across the world.

Here are our favourite tried and tested ‘free-from’ recipes. You’re welcome!

Farmers and workers in the global south are often living on thin margins even during ‘normal’ times.

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

Tom Hunt shares his delicious and nutritious homemade energy balls recipe.

At Fairtrade, our mission is to help farmers and workers in some of the world’s poorest countries to get a better deal and escape poverty. We’re deeply worried that this virus will devastate the communities we work with – not only because of its impact on people’s health, but also the very real possibility that containment measures will cause widespread hardship to people’s incomes and wages.

In words that will resonate with people all around the world, ‘Since the pandemic started, our life has really changed’ says Grace Otieno, a worker on a Fairtrade certified farm in the Naivasha region of Kenya.

Uganda, like many other countries around the world, has implemented a national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel COVID-19.

As the world faces the Coronavirus pandemic as one, we at Fairtrade are focusing on how the rapidly evolving crisis is affecting the farmers and workers who produce many of our favourite goods, including our most treasured outfits and our everyday clothes.