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Fair Trade and us
Fair Trade Certified™ products were made with respect to people and planet. Our rigorous social, environmental and economic standards work to promote safe, healthy working conditions, protect the environment, enable transparency, and empower communities to build strong, thriving businesses. When you choose products with the Fair Trade label, your day-to-day purchases can improve an entire community’s day-to-day lives.
One of the most important aspects of Fair Trade is this: funds are specifically designated for social, economic and environmental development projects. However, we don’t pretend to know what’s best for each community. That’s why we’ve enabled a democratic system where each community determines how their funds are used. Click through the examples below to see how developing communities all over the world have used the funds from Fair Trade to improve their quality of life.
Producers and traders, consumers and companies, all benefit from supporting the Fairtrade system. Fairtrade helps to make markets work for the poor.
The reasons we should buy Fairtrade products are as follows:
It is good for producers;
Stable prices For most products there is a Fairtrade Minimum Price that aims to cover the costs of sustainable production – even when world market prices are volatile or drop below the cost of production
A Fairtrade Premium The Premium helps producers to improve the quality of their lives. It is paid on top of the agreed Fairtrade price, and producers decide democratically how to use it. Typically producers invest in education, healthcare, farm improvements or processing facilities to increase income.
It is good for businesses;
Fairtrade offers companies a way to be part of a global movement, and offers a credible way to ensure that their trade has a positive impact for the people at the end of the chain.
But most of all it is good for the environment:
Fairtrade rewards and encourages farming and production practices that are environmentally sustainable. Producers are also encouraged to strive toward organic certification. Producers must:
Protect the environment in which they work and live. This includes areas of natural water, virgin forest and other important land areas and dealing with problems of erosion and waste management.
Develop, implement and monitor an operations plan on their farming and production techniques. This needs to reflect a balance between protecting the environment and good business results.
Follow national and international standards for the handling of chemicals. There is a list of chemicals based in international norms and agreements, which must not be used.
Not, intentionally, use products which include genetically modified organisms (GMO).
Thus due to these reasons we should buy Fairtrade products.
Also these are the places where the Fairtrade products will be available:
Retail Stores
Auchan India
Food World
Fair Foods
Nisarga Shoppe, Bangalore
Godrej Nature’s Basket, Bangalore
Online Stores
Amazon.in
Bigbasket.com
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