Fair Trade: Just Business for People’s Development

Fair Trade is a trading partnership which aims at sustainable development for excluded and disadvantaged entrepreneurs, producers, workers and communities.

As equally important, Fair Trade makes sure that products especially food and crafts are safe, of world-class quality, reasonably priced, environment-friendly and consumer-responsive.

Fairly-traded products can be no less!

Fair Trade, therefore, is an alternative approach to conventional international trade. Advocating for Fair Trade is a way to end poverty and put in place just business partnerships, relationships, networks, structures and systems.

Fair Trade is Just Business for Peoples’ Development.

 

KEY PRINCIPLES OF FAIR TRADE

  • Creating socio-economic opportunities for disadvantaged or marginalized producers
  • Transparency, accountability and participation in management and commercial relations and partnerships
  • Capacity building to develop producers’ independence
  • Fair price
  • Business continuity and market access
  • Gender equity
  • Safe and healthy working conditions
  • Consumer-responsive and quality products
  • Ecological integrity

 

 

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