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  „The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on UK products as a guarantee that they have given their producers a better deal. The Mark is awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation, a registered charity set up by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Traidcraft Exchange and the World Development Movement. It shares internationally recognised Fairtrade standards with initiatives in 18 other countries, working together as Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO).“

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  „The MORI poll results come as sales of Fairtrade foods have more than doubled over the past three years. Fairtrade brands now account for 14% of the total UK roast and ground coffee market. Stocked by most major supermarkets, Fairtrade foods have become more visible in recent years, with high street chains such as Costa Coffee, Starbucks and Pret A Manger offering a Fairtrade option. Riding high on this visibility, the Fairtrade Foundation and the international umbrella organisation it helped found have also won the King Baudouin International Prize for Development.“

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  „Guillermo Vargas Leiton of Coocafe cooperative in Costa Rica which supplies the UK Fairtrade market says: "When you buy our coffee you are not just buying our coffee you are supporting our democracy." Farmers’ organisations such as Coocafe that sell all or part of their members’ crops to the Fairtrade market receive a minimum of 106 cents per lb and 126 cents per lb, for robusta and arabica beans respectively. This includes a five cents per pound fixed premium. This compares to the current world market price of 24 cent per lb and 52 cents per lb for Robusta and Arabica beans respectively.“

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  „The Salvation Army, the UK’s largest care provider after the government, is starting a switch to Fairtrade foods – a move to be rolled out in its 800 centres and supported by TV chef Brian Turner of the BBC TV’s Ready Steady Cook. The Youth Hostel Association (YHA) is also celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight by beginning the switch to Fairtrade tea and coffee in more than 200 Youth Hostels across England and Wales, as is the British Medical Association.“

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  „Sales of Fairtrade foods have more than doubled over the past three years and Fairtrade brands now account for 14 % of the total UK roast and ground coffee market. The British public are drinking 1.7 million cups of Fairtrade tea, coffee and cocoa each day and eating 1.5 million Fairtrade bananas a week.“

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  „This award follows a phenomenal rise in Fairtrade sales in the UK, up by 90 per cent in the past two years with 1.5 million Fairtrade bananas consumed every week and 1.7 million cups of tea, coffee and cocoa drunk every day. According to the latest MORI survey commissioned to mark World Fair Trade Day on May 17, a third of Britons now associate the FAIRTRADE Mark with ‘Guarantees a better deal for Third World producers’.“

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