Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003

Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003 ()

  „The Soil Association and Fairtrade Foundation announce a one-year trial project that aims to increase the range of Fairtrade and Organic foods available by simplifying certification procedures. It will also consider how the principles of Fairtrade could be applied to the UK context. Bruce Crowther of Garstang Oxfam Group said, "I hope that this action will bring the small UK farmer closer to other small farmers across the world so they can unite against the injustices of a trading system that has been at the root of so much poverty and suffering."“

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BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Changing Places BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Changing Places

  „The Fairtrade Foundation promotes fair trade, especially food (tea, coffee, chocolate, etc.) and runs all the certification and monitoring linked to the international fair trade mark.“

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Fairtrade | Fairtrade Foundation | About us Fairtrade | Fairtrade Foundation | About us

  „Currently there are a total of 21members of staff at the Fairtrade Foundation that work within the departments of Commercial Relations, Communications, Certification and Operations, Finance and IT. We also rely on the work of around 15 volunteers.“

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Organic News Winter/Spring 1999 Organic News Winter/Spring 1999

  „Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) is a worldwide umbrella of fair trade monitoring groups that issue labels to products meeting fair trade criteria. Before the creation of FLO, one of these groups, Transfair International, awarded the license to use the name Transfair to a group in the United States, creating Transfair U.S. This past May, Transfair U.S. received a grant from the Ford Foundation to help implement a consumer education plan. "We hope to have a coordinated national launch in the market by November 1998," says Transfair U.S. Executive Director Paul Rice.“

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Coffee Association of Canada Coffee Association of Canada

  „37% of coffee drinkers have an awareness of organic - up from 30% in 2001. Awareness of fairtrade coffee increased from 4% in 2001 to 11% in 2003.“

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Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | Organic and Fairtrade Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | Organic and Fairtrade

  „Many producers seek to use organic practices, but Fairtrade does not require them to do so. This is because many of the most disadvantaged cannot meet organic standards, and not all will be able to sell their crop as organic, so they won't be able to benefit from the premium prices. Fairtrade does not exclude producers who are unable to meet organic standards, as its priority is towards the most marginalised producers.“

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