Fair Trade

Fair Trade is a movement that promotes standards for international labour, environmentalism, and social policy in areas relating to the production of goods, which range from handcrafts to agricultural goods. The movement focuses on exports from developing countries to developed countries.

Fair Trade deliberately works with marginalised producers and workers in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to economic self-sufficiency. It also aims at empowering them to become stakeholders in their own organisations and actively play a wider role in the global arena to achieve greater equity in international trade.

The fair trade movement actively supports the following principles and practices in trading relationships:

Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers
Fair trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

Transparency and accountability
Fair trade involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners.

Capacity building
Fair trade is a means to develop producers independence. Fairtrade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organizations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets.

Payment of a fair price
A fair price is one that has been agreed through dialogue and participation. It covers not only the costs of production but enables production which is socially just and environmentally sound. It provides fair pay to the producers and takes into account the principle of equal pay for equal work by women and men.

Gender equity
Fair trade means that women's work is properly valued and rewarded.

Working conditions
Fair trade means a safe and healthy working environment for producers.

Environment
Fair trade actively encourages better environmental practices and the application of responsible methods of production.

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