Frequently asked questions on Fairtrade?
For more information on Fairtrade visit Fairtrade.org.uk
Find out what Fairtrade’s all about – and how a small change in your shopping habits can make a difference in developing countries.
Fairtrade guarantees that small producers, in developing countries, get a fair price for their products – crucial in today’s massive global market. But that’s not all. Buying Fairtrade also means the producers receive an extra premium, invested in the community to improve living and working conditions.
David Meller, Sainsbury’s Socially Responsible Sourcing Manager, says, ‘Fairtrade offers our customers an independent label that guarantees a fair deal for marginalised workers and small farmers in developing countries. It’s very important to Sainsbury’s, and we intend to develop it more in 2007.’
More than five million people – farmers, workers and their families – across 58 developing countries benefit from the Fairtrade system, and, you get great products, bought with a clear conscience, so everyone’s a winner.
The first fairly traded products were launched 20 years ago. Green & Black’s Maya Gold Chocolate was the first product certified in the UK back in 1994, and Sainsbury’s was the first supermarket to sell it.
New Fairtrade lines are being introduced all the time, but include tea, coffee, drinking chocolate, fresh produce such as bananas, coconuts and pineapples, wine, chocolate, roses and cotton.
All Fairtrade products carry this Mark, awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation charity. See
fairtrade.org.uk for more details.
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