Transfair USA | Fair Trade News (#)
„According to British newspapers, every day Brits drink 1.7 million cups of fair-trade tea, coffee and cocoa every week, and they eat 1.5 million fair-trade bananas. In addition, fair-trade chocolate increasingly is stocked in school vending machines, and whole communities have designated themselves fair-trade towns.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„The sale of fair-trade-certified coffee on college and university campuses has been uplifting for the coffee industry, providing a sure channel through which fair-trade coffee can be distributed. And students-society's moral fighters-may turn out to play an important role in eventually ending the coffee crisis. Not only do students support fair-trade coffee by drinking it, they are also forming organizations and educating themselves on the positive social effects of fair trade.“
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Transfair USA | Fresh Fruit Program
„In Europe, where Fair Trade Certified bananas have gained market share as high as 24 percent and are growing at a rate of over 50 percent per year, grocery retailers have found Fair Trade Certified bananas to be an answer to the "banana price wars" instigated by mass market retailers. Fair Trade certification is a powerful marketing tool that adds value to commodities, allowing retailers to choose the higher ground, both morally and financially.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Although fair-trade coffee constitutes only 1 percent of the coffee market nationwide, its share of the specialty coffee market, where it is being directed, is 3 percent and climbing.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Fair-trade cocoa, chocolate and tea have been sold at national grocery stores and coffee shops for more than a year, but fruits are the latest to receive the certification.“
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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News
„Under the fair-trade program, farmers receive a guaranteed minimum price of $1.26 per pound for conventionally grown coffee and $1.41 for organically grown coffee. The price of conventionally grown coffee on the international market is about 42 cents per pound while organic coffee prices fluctuate between 65 cents and 85 cents per pound, the groups said.“
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