Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003 (#)

  „And he certainly did that. A quietly spoken man, he held audiences across the country spellbound as he told how hard low coffee prices are hitting farmers - and how Fairtrade is changing lives. 'When you buy Fairtrade', he had told a packed launch at the House of Commons, 'you are supporting our democracy.' The co-operative is working, he explained, to build up membership, to improve quality, to find markets, to ensure their kids get a proper education and much more.“

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Fairtrade | Suppliers | Growers | Ovidia, Fairtrade cocoa farmer

  „For this part of their crop, the farmers receive a guaranteed minimum price. The remaining cocoa is sold to the conventional market where prices have been very low, below the cost of production, for over two years. They have been earning an average of about 2,500 pesos a month which just about covers their costs and allows them living expenses. There is no money left over, but if there was, Ovidia would like to save it to make improvements to their home.“

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It's All About Coffee

  „When you reach for your jar of Fairtrade coffee this morning, the makers hope you will spare a thought for the farmers in the developing world. But a row is brewing between two of the organisations that certify ethical coffee over whose fair trade is the fairest.“

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Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 2003

  „Only a rise in demand for Fairtrade coffee will push this figure higher…and ensure other farmers, like Diego, can join the system. Through Fairtrade farmers’ organisation receive a guaranteed US$1.26 per lb for their coffee, however low coffee prices go on the conventional world market. At present the world price is around 65 cents. Of the US$1.26, five cents is the ‘Fairtrade premium,’ to be used for business or community development programmes.“

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Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | What is Fairtrade?

  „Development agencies recognised the important role that consumers could play to improve the situation for producers. By buying direct from farmers at better prices, helping to strengthen their organisations and marketing their produce directly through their own one world shops and catalogues, the charities offered consumers the opportunity to buy products which were bought on the basis of a fair trade.“

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Fairtrade | News | Press Release

  „In the context of an unfair global trade system, UK consumers are making a positive difference to the lives of tens of thousands of farmers in developing countries by choosing to buy Fairtrade coffee for the home, in the workplace and in coffee shops. This consumer support is also sending a strong message to government and the coffee industry that coffee farmers should receive a sustainable price for their commodity.“

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