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Fair trade, when practiced well, must provide full transparency in terms of pricing, weighing, and quality standards. As the end goal is a superior quality product in all ways, good fair trade organizations provide good capacity building in terms of best production, harvest, and post-harvest practices.
Fair trade, by this definition, is a trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. Fair trade organizations, backed by consumers, support producers, raise awareness and campaign for changes in the rules and practice of conventional international trade. [3]
The Fairtrade Foundation is a charity based in the United Kingdom that aims to help disadvantaged producers in developing countries by tackling injustice in conventional trade, in particular by promoting and licensing the Fairtrade Mark, a guarantee that products retailed in the UK have been produced in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards.
Fairtrade International was established in 1997. It set private standards relating to labour, cooperative organisation, and the governance of the Fairtrade benefits. The organisation was divided in January 2004 into two independent organisations: [5]
Fair trade sales in the U.S. averaged an annual growth of 50% throughout the decade. [3] Following the proliferation of Fairtrade Towns in the UK, Media, Pennsylvania became the first fair trade town in the U.S. in 2006. [3] Today there are 45 U.S. Fair Trade Towns in total. Below is a list of these towns as of November 2019. [2]
Founded in 1998 by the Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy (IATP), [3] Fair Trade USA is an independent, nonprofit organization that sets standards, [4] certifies, and labels products that promote sustainable livelihoods for farmers and workers and protect the environment.
Any trade deal is ultimately only as good as all the signatories' willingness to abide by it—and the hypocrisy of tearing up his own agreement is apparently not enough to stop Trump.
The Fair Trade Organization Mark (WFTO Logo) shows that an organization follows the WFTO's 10 Principles of Fair Trade, covering working conditions, transparency, wages, the environment, gender equity and more. The WFTO logo is not a product mark - it is used to brand organisations that are committed to 100% Fair Trade. It sets them apart from ...