Fair trade is a global movement that is aimed at improving standards for labor and employment, promoting environmentalism and mutually beneficial social policy relating to trade between countries. Through the fair trade movement producers are empowered to sustainable developments.
Goals of fair trade:
Fair trade is about offering a great product to consumers while upholding a high respect for resources and producers.
Fair trade is also about keeping prices affordable for consumers while fairly compensating producers. This is possible through the relationships between fair trade retailers and wholesalers and the producers (the artisans and farmers). Fair trader retailer typically work directly with the producers, cutting out the middle men and enabling retail products to remain competitively priced.
Finally, fair trade is about community. The benefits of fair trade have a tremendous impact on the producer’s communities because fair trade approaches development as a holistic process. Producers, men, women and children are empowered; they feed money back into their communities for schools, health care, and environmental improvements and protections.
Consumers have a vast variety of fair trade products to from which to choose: clothing, coffee, tea, food, furniture, art, house wares, jewelry, toys, personal accessories, and many other products.
There are three great resources on the Internet that help you determine if a company is practicing fair trade.
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