Fair Trade Articles

Why You Should Buy Fair Trade Coffee

When you buy fair trade coffee, you directly benefit the small coffee farmers who grew the beans. In fact, they will receive almost twice the payment they would get outside the fair trade system.

Fair Trade Products - Why Is It Important?

Fair trade is based on the twin principles of environmentally sustainable development and humane wages and working conditions. Those goals are accomplished by working directly with fair trade cooperatives. Fair trade cooperatives also emphasize other social issues, such as child care, health care and access to loans. Best of all, fair trade products are excellent products.

What Is Fair Trade?

You're buying coffee. One label says this roasted mountain-fresh Colombian coffee is ideal for all coffee makers. But is it ideal for the coffee bean's maker, the farmer? Your choice is empowering. When you choose fair trade, you get more than coffee; you get the opportunity to enrich someone's life.

What is Organic and Fairtrade Tea and Coffee

The UK is known as a nation of tea drinkers, one Polish person once asked me if we drank tea at 3 oclock everyday as some sort of ritual!

Why buy Fairtrade?

The Fairtrade Foundation exists to ensure that producers are guaranteed a minimum price for their goods irrespective of world prices.