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7 Fairtrade Switches to cut your plastic use

Take the standard supermarket product. We buy it, consume it, discard it. But we all know that a product’s life is longer than that. Fairtrade works to shed light on what happens before you buy a product but what happens after you discard it matters too.

4 min read | September 18, 2021

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Group photo of Fairtrade campaigners at the Abergavveny Food Festival

Fairtrade celebrations for Great Big Green Week 2021

Find events all over the UK celebrating positive action on climate justice, run by Fairtrade campaigners in their communities.

5 min read | September 13, 2021

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a selection of organic fairtrade products including wine and olive oil

12 Organic and Fairtrade products to try

From chocolate to wine, and quinoa to bananas, explore the finest products that dual-certification has to offer. 

3 min read | September 2, 2021

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Portrait of Asocoomag women's group posing with a table of their banana products

How women entrepreneurs are changing communities for good with bananas

by Anna Pierides Senior Supply Chain and Programme Manager at Fairtrade Foundation. ‘We are women who have a lot of…

3 min read | August 27, 2021

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Felix Ouma, a member of the Fairtrade Africa Premium Alumni Association (FAPAA) at his campus- Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri, Kenya where he is undertaking his degree in Mechatronics Engineering.

Felix Ouma: dreams fulfilled and plans for the future

When Felix Ouma graduates from university next year he will have completed a nine-year journey with Fairtrade that began in 2014

4 min read | August 11, 2021

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An open avacado on a pink background

5 Fairtrade ingredients that might surprise you

Which ingredients spring to mind when you think of Fairtrade? Chocolate coffee bananas and tea might be the most obvious…

4 min read | July 27, 2021

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Headshots of Caroline Holme and Rose Price

Get ahead of online sustainability trends with these 7 tips from Ocado and Globescan

Rose Price, Buying Director at Ocado and Caroline Holme, Senior Director at GlobeScan give their top tips on selling sustainable products online.

4 min read | July 15, 2021

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Julie and Nicole under Eloments sign

7 ways to inspire tea lovers to choose a healthy product for people and planet

Fairtrade Foundation’s Catherine Rubbens Senior Partnerships Manager sits down with Julie Hirsch Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Fairtrade-certified…

4 min read | July 13, 2021

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Chocolate bar carved with symbols representing Fairtrade - tap, tree, logo, corn, gender signs, plate with cutlery, money, two people sat on a bench looking at the symbols

Love Chocolate, hate injustice? 6 reasons to choose Fairtrade

We all love chocolate but like most things in life, if you look more closely at the wrapper you can find out a lot more about the conditions under which the beans in your bar were produced.

6 min read | July 7, 2021

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Portrait of Kouao Amah, Cocoa Farmer, Côte d'Ivoire - photo by Chris Terry (2019)

Meet Kouao Amah – the farmer behind your chocolate bar

We’re celebrating the cocoa farmers in West Africa who grow the beans for our chocolate by sharing their stories

3 min read | July 6, 2021

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