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6 reasons to buy Aldi Fairtrade flowers

Fairtrade Foundation — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:09:37 +0000

Did you know that when you buy a bunch of roses, they are often grown in Africa?

Hundreds of thousands of roses will be flown into the UK every year, especially when British roses are not in season. Many will wonder why we need to transport flowers from East Africa when we can grow them right here in Europe.

We’ll dispel some common misconceptions about Fairtrade flowers and spotlight one UK retailer, Aldi, that is making positive changes in their flower supply chain and sourcing.

Here’s why you should buy Fairtrade flowers:

1. Fairtrade flowers have a lower carbon footprint

One of the most frequently asked questions is why we transport flowers from East Africa when we can grow them right here in Europe.

So, we commissioned a study to compare the environmental impact of roses grown in Kenya to those grown in the Netherlands.

We discovered that greenhouse gas emissions from producing Fairtrade roses in Kenya are 5.5 times lower – and with 6.5 times lower energy demand.

One reason is that the climate in Africa is ideal for growing flowers, but in Europe, the cost of recreating that environment can come with a heavy carbon footprint.

Aldi also now uses sea freight instead of air travel to further reduce the carbon footprint of Fairtrade roses.

2. Fairtrade flower farms are reducing water usage

The carbon footprint isn’t the only environmental issue that is being addressed on Fairtrade flower farms.

Some farms collect rainwater for irrigation, while others use wetlands to purify the water that comes out of greenhouses, which purifies the water to prevent water pollution, and is also reused to water the plants over and over.

3. Fairtrade flower farms protect the environment

Fairtrade flower businesses understand that in order to be sustainable, they must protect the environment.

Many Fairtrade flower farms are trying out natural solutions, ranging from cow manure to compost, to increase productivity and combat pests, without negatively impacting the environment.

In fact, all of Kenya’s Fairtrade farms are taking positive conservation measures, such as planting 11,000 trees, collecting litter for fuel in community cookers, and running a conservation park.

4. Women’s empowerment is firmly on the global agenda, and Fairtrade is leading the way

Around 50% of all workers on Fairtrade flower farms are women, and in Ethiopia, this figure can be as high as 70%.

This is higher than many other sectors, so there is a real opportunity to pave the way to better gender equality.

There have been huge steps forward, but there are still many challenges.

In 2018, Aldi committed to investing in a programme that focused on gender empowerment on flower farms in Ethiopia. 

As part of the Phase 1 Aldi Programme, Fairtrade Africa has run training courses to educate both men and women about gender inclusion, what constitutes harassment and how to implement an effective gender policy as well as build leadership skills, knowledge of budgeting and investment opportunities.

Fairtrade Standards require farms to have gender committees, and the farm on the Aldi programme has established a functional gender committee and gender policy.

In the evaluation of the Programme, 80% of participants in the Aldi Programme stated that gender committees are functional, and many reported feeling that they are highly successful.

The gender committees are crucially helping to change attitudes and challenge negative behaviour and stereotypes about gender, and they are having a positive effect on the wider community. This is the key to unlocking sustained and long-term change.

The current Phase 2 Aldi Programme launched in 2022 and builds on previous efforts to improve working conditions and raise awareness of workers’ rights, gender, and disability inclusion of workers on flower farms.

Women have the potential of taking up leadership positions and roles, unlike in previous years when women were considered irrelevant and/or unable to lead and work equally as men.
Meseret Teshome, supervisor at Herburg Flower Farm

One of the best indicators that issues are being tackled is that women tend to stay longer on Fairtrade farms, suggesting they are happier with their working conditions.

5. Workers on Fairtrade flower farms are some of the first moving towards a decent standard of working conditions

The Phase 2 Aldi Programme, which launched in 2022 and will run until 2025, builds on previous efforts to improve working conditions while focusing on gender, youth, and improving inclusion for workers with disabilities.

It will reach an additional 19,000 flower farm workers, of which 67% are women, 33% are males, and 70% are considered youth.

The Phase 2 Aldi Programme works to build trade union capacity and assist flower farm workers in developing collective bargaining skills to enable industrial relations and enhance working conditions.

In addition, by paying the Fairtrade Premium, workers have an extra sum to invest democratically in whatever they choose, in areas such as children’s education and healthcare.

The Premium also allows opportunities for adult education courses and training for employees, e.g. hairdressing, putting more power in the hands of workers.

6. Fairtrade flowers are worth it

We should all feel blooming good about Fairtrade flowers.

By buying flowers from Aldi, you can make sure the flowers you buy support decent wages and working conditions for flower farm farmers. Fairtrade flowers are a driver of genuine, sustained positive change.

Fairtrade works to improve wages for those who produce the goods we consume, as well as to provide better working conditions, necessary safety equipment, and strategies to protect workers from exploitation or issues such as sexual harassment.

We’re sure you’ll agree that all of this is vital, but we must all take responsibility for spreading the cost evenly across the entire value chain, because farms cannot bear the burden alone.

Would you be willing to pay more for Fairtrade flowers if the money went back to the workers?

Buy Fairtrade roses at Aldi

How can we have a fair fashion future?

Fairtrade Foundation — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:16:20 +0000

Ten years after the Rana Plaza collapse, industry experts Margaux Schleder, Abhishek Jani and Safia Minney share their insights on how we can create a fairer future in fashion.

On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, collapsed. The disaster killed more than 1,100 people and injured more than 2,500, many of whom are still waiting for proper compensation.

Millions of people have since joined the Fashion Revolution campaign to demand a fairer, more transparent industry.

(Clockwise from top left: Venetia La Manna, Margaux Schleder, Safia Minney, Abhishek Jani)

Safia Minney, founder of People Tree and executive director of Fashion Declares, spoke about the tragedy at a Sustainable Fashion Week webinar. She said that there had been ‘a sense that this was waiting to happen’. While Abhishek Jani, CEO of Fairtrade India, called the collapse a ‘huge wake up call even for people in the sector’.

Tackling the ‘fast fashion monster’

The speakers discussed how some safety conditions have improved since then and consumer awareness has been raised, but that, as Minney put it: ‘the [fast fashion] monster is out of control’, and workers’ rights are still at danger of being forgotten.

Host and fair fashion campaigner Venetia La Manna said: ‘One thing that is abundantly clear… is that garment workers need to be paid a fair living wage.’

Minney said: ‘I think anything other than a fair living wage is criminal… It’s unpolite. It should be Fairtrade or the semblance of decent trade should be what our system is built on.

‘We don’t have it because of lack of transparency, lack of accountability, vested interest, a sordidly dysfunctional system.’

The impact of Fairtrade

The impact of the textile industry extends right back to the farmers who produce the cotton sourced by brands. That’s why Fairtrade continues to call for full supply chain transparency.

Also speaking was Margaux Schleder, Head of CSR at Swedish fair fashion brand Dedicated, who said she had consciously chosen Fairtrade and organic cotton when starting her business: ‘I think Fairtrade is the most impactful label out there… It is the easiest thing for a brand to do.’

Jani added that environmental sustainability follows economic.

He said: ‘These are the key aspects of the Fairtrade model: working with smallholder farmers which allows them to have economic empowerment [which] allows them to then follow the better sustainability practices.’

Fairtrade is the most impactful label out there… It is the easiest thing for a brand to do.
Margaux Schleder, Head of CSR, Dedicated

Standing up for workers

As many as 100 million rural households depend on cotton for their livelihoods – but they also face rising costs of production, decreasing yields, the impact of climate change, and often being trapped in a complex supply chain.

Jani said that people – both consumers and in the industry – need to ‘listen’ to ‘those faceless, nameless people’ toiling in the fields and factories to make our clothes.

A hopeful future

Margaux was hopeful of a future for fairer fashion – especially with proposed EU legislation demanding living wages across the supply chain.

Safia declared: ‘Fair fashion is about relationship, partnership, love. It’s really appreciating the enormity of the natural resources and maximising the opportunities for decent livelihoods for everyone.’

Fashion and Fairtrade

Fairtrade cotton is produced by 20 producer organisations across eight countries, representing over 40,000 smallholder farmers.

We work with businesses to ensure cotton farmers are paid a Fairtrade Minimum Price for their cotton as well as a Fairtrade Premium to invest in their communities.

Where to buy Fairtrade cotton:

Choosing Fairtrade cotton makes a real difference to the people behind the label. Here are some of the brands we work with:

People Tree
100% Fairtrade certified organic cotton clothing made to the highest ethical standards.
White Stuff
Committed to making Fairtrade Sourced Cotton an increasing part of their product range.
Thought
Timeless and accessible clothing with sustainability in mind since 1995.
Dip & Doze
Bed and bath products made using only the finest organic and Fairtrade-certified cotton.
Little Green Radicals
Colourful organic and Fairtrade clothes for children.
KoolSkools
UK-wide supplier of school uniform made with Fairtrade cotton.

Cotton that cares

Cotton

Find out what is meant by Fairtrade cotton, and where you can buy Fairtrade cotton clothes, bedlinen, towels and other homewares.

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Fairtrade businesses championing the future of food

Fairtrade Foundation — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:01:43 +0000

It’s hard to imagine that many of our favourite foods and drinks like chocolate, coffee and bananas, are at risk due to climate change.

But by making the small switch to Fairtrade, we can all support farmers and workers to adapt to some of the effects of climate change.

Hear from six pioneering Fairtrade brands on how they are working with Fairtrade to create a more sustainable future.

Zaytoun

Fairtrade olive farmer Haj Rafeeq Hussein.

Fairtrade has worked with Palestine’s Zaytoun since 2004, producing the world’s first Fairtrade olive oil.

Palestinian farmers struggle with the effects of the military occupation of the area, from restricted access to water to the ongoing risk of their land being confiscated.

And like many small-scale farmers, they are facing the cost-of-living crisis as well as the impacts of climate change.

Fairtrade supports producers in Palestine to preserve a way of life and enables them to continue to grow crops that are threatened with extinction.
Zaytoun staff

To find out more, visit the Zaytoun website.

Quinola

A climate-resilient crop, quinoa can grow in places where soil is thin and rainfall scarce. Despite this, the price that quinoa farmers receive has been dropping since 2015 as more countries have begun to produce it.

However, the Fairtrade quinoa that Quinola buys has a Minimum Price guarantee which is above the market price. This, plus the Fairtrade Premium, has resulted in the doubling of farmer income between 2020-22 – and Quinola’s farmers in Peru have been able to buy two tractors.

Before the tractor we wanted to mechanise the farming but it was not possible financially. We ploughed fields with a bullock.
Fairtrade quinoa farmers Christina and Godofreido Cassana

Find out more on the Quinola website.

Liberation

Fairtrade nut farmer Sadheeshan grows betel and cashew as cash crops

Despite the cost-of-living crisis, through trading with Fairtrade principles, Fairtrade nut cooperatives are investing in environmental initiatives.

These vary from Brazil nut gatherers in Bolivia helping to protect sections of Amazon rainforest to peanut-processing farms in Nicaragua investing in solar panels.

While nuts are low -emission crops in themselves, being traded through stable and enduring Fairtrade partnerships… helps smallholder producers to plan, invest, adapt and diversify.
Liberation staff

Find out more on the Liberation website.

JTS

JTS production supervisor S M Premalatha

MA’s Happy Life Kitchen in Sri Lanka produce the award-winning Fairtrade Coconut Milk (and the newer reduced-fat version too).

They use environmentally friendly methods such as organic farming and energy conservation programmes.

Irregular rain is a major issue so farmers share knowledge on how to retain rainwater around the coconut trees using pits. This is helping to improve their crops.

For us at JTS, Fairtrade is about providing sustainable incomes and wellbeing for smallholder farmers, producers and their families.
JTS staff

Find out more on the JTS website.

Cafédirect

Fairtrade farmer at Chirinos cooperative in Peru, a supplier for Cafédirect

Cafédirect is the UK’s first and largest Fairtrade coffee company.

It’s not just about a fair price – it’s about sustainable livelihoods, better lives for whole communities and investment in a future for coffee.

The farmers Cafédirect work with say climate change is their biggest problem. Through Fairtrade they are accessing training and funding to adapt to climate change and restore their environment.

The farmers at Huadquiña work in harmony with the environment around us and preserve our natural surroundings.
Tany Curi Leon, manager at Huadquiña Fairtrade cooperative, a Cafédirect supplier

Find out more on the Cafédirect website.

Divine Chocolate

Diana Saakwa, Cape Coast Society, Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Cooperative, Ghana

Cocoa is extremely vulnerable to changing weather such as flooding and drought. This impacts yields and harvests – which may drive cocoa farmers to expand into forest areas, increasing deforestation.

The long-term impact is that the next generation may not take up cocoa farming.

This is threatening the future of chocolate itself.

Climate change is really worrying us. Now we don’t know when to start farming, when to work on the farm. It has brought strange pests to our cocoa… [Kuapa Kokoo has] taught us to plant trees and other food crops in our cocoa farms to provide shade.
Diana Saakwa, Cape Coast Society, Kuapa Kokoo Farmer’s Cooperative, Ghana

In 2022, Divine Chocolate partnered with Swiss chocolatier HALBA on an agroforestry project.

Working with Kuapa Kokoo farmers in Ghana, the project aimed to vary crops grown and diversify farmer income, help increase the moisture and fertility of the soil, as well as boost shade cover and biodiversity – all key to the future of cocoa.

Lots of our favourite Fairtrade brands took part in our Endangered Aisle pop-up experience as part of Fairtrade Fortnight 2023.

Find out more about what we got up to on the Fairtrade Fortnight page.

Photo: Chirinos cooperative in Peru, a supplier for Cafédirect. Credit: Cafédirect.

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Deborah’s story: ‘There is hope if there is certification.’

Fairtrade Foundation — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:13:23 +0000

Fairtrade ambassador Deborah Osei-Mensah tells us how Fairtrade farmers are tackling climate change – and what world leaders need to do.

“Farmers are on the frontline of the climate crisis. They are crying but no one is listening to them,” says Ghanaian Fairtrade ambassador Deborah Osei-Mensah.

She was speaking to the Fairtrade Foundation before the COP27 climate summit began in Egypt.

“At the end everyone is losing. It isn’t just the farmers: we won’t have the chocolate, the coffee, the fruit and other things that we wish to enjoy every day.”

Facing unfairness

Thanks to the impact of the climate crisis, farming is an increasingly uncertain career. But farmers in countries disadvantaged by unfair global trade structures have long struggled to provide for their families.

“I was born into farming, my mum and dad were farmers and still are,” Deborah says.

I saw my dad harvest a lot of cocoa but he was still struggling to get money, struggling to pay for household costs.

“Before and after school I helped out. But one thing I realised: I saw my dad harvest a lot of cocoa but he was still struggling to get money, struggling to pay for household costs, getting school fees was difficult, despite how hard he was working. So in my mind, farming wasn’t an option for me.”

Deborah finished school, went on to university and took part in national service.

Her turning point came by chance. She was working in the district of Asunafo and attended a meeting for a local Fairtrade co-operative.

The way the farmers talked about farm management, practices, harvesting, I realised then there is hope. I can do something

“These farmers were different from the farmers that I knew. That was the first time I learned about certification.

“I got to know about Fairtrade, the Fairtrade Premium and what they used it for. The way the farmers talked about farm management, practices, harvesting, I realised then there is hope. I can do something.”

More money, more power, more food security

“If cocoa is not profitable for farmers, they will look to other sources to give them the income they need. They will move to industrialisation – farmers [might sell] land to mines, to manufacturers.

“But once they are getting fair prices, farmers will protect their farm.

“Farmers use the Fairtrade Premium to contribute to their communities. If they feel they are being supported they can invest in the future of food security.”

Deborah at a cocoa bean drying bench in Asuadai, Ghana

A future for farming

“Fairtrade is what motivates me to work in farming.

“There is hope if there is certification. Certified farmers receive the Fairtrade Premium, the Minimum Price, but it also empowers farmers to speak for themselves.

I have hope because farmers are becoming stronger than they used to be.

“I have hope because farmers are becoming stronger than they used to be. In Ghana my co-operative and others have started forming an association, so farmers have a more powerful voice to advocate for change.

“I see a future for farming where farmers are more powerful and they can call on the government to do or make policies that will help them, support their farm and fight for their livelihoods. So there is still hope.”

No time to waste

Deborah says that shoppers across the world can help.

“For consumers, I want each and every one to be more conscious of the products we buy.

“Together, let’s make the future fair. Let’s buy more Fairtrade. Let’s advocate for producers across the globe to make sure we have a fair future for each and every one.”

There is no time to waste. Climate change is happening now.

She also has strong words for the world leaders at the COP27 climate summit. “There is no time to waste. Climate change is happening now.

“If there is action to be done, it has to be done now. If you have to save the world, to save food, it has to be done now.

“Political leaders should put their pen down and start acting.

“We have to save the future now.”

See Deborah speak at COP27

Join us in watching Deborah and other Fairtrade ambassadors speak at COP27 live-streamed events.

How Fairtrade is fighting for climate justice

Fairtrade and climate justice

10 January, 2023

Join the communities living with the worst effects of climate change in fighting for Climate Justice.

Fairtrade demands action from delegates at COP27

7 November, 2022

Fairtrade calls on Member States at COP27 to ‘honour their climate promises’ and ‘act now’ for our planet’s farmers.

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7 Fairtrade Switches to cut your plastic use

Claire Liboureau — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Take the standard supermarket product. We buy it, consume it, discard it. But we all know that a product’s life is longer than that. Fairtrade works to shed light on what happens before you buy a product but what happens after you discard it matters too.

By now you’ve probably seen pictures of our seventh continent, ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ and disturbing images of whales and dolphins dying with bellies full of plastic. It’s no secret that plastic is one of the most difficult materials to dispose of, and so if we don’t use it in the first place then we don’t have to get rid of it. Here are seven Fairtrade switches to make your purchase responsible from beginning to end.

1. Switch from Plastic wrappers

Chocolate and Love plastic-free wrappers tick all the boxes. The inner wrapper is made with wood pulp from responsibly managed forests and is fully compostable. The outer wrapper is designed in collaboration with one of the co-founders and a talented New York artist who hand-paints all the illustrations, which are then printed on FSC certified paper. Chocolate and Love minimises their carbon footprint through a tree-planting project with WeForest. 28,000 trees planted and counting!

Where to buy Chocolate and Love

Cocoa Loco have lots of delicious products in their plastic free range such as ‘Happy Birthday’ chocolate slabs, milk chocolate dipped mango and raspberry chocolate pigs. Their new bags are compostable at industrial sites or at home.

Where to buy Cocoa Loco

Seed & Bean’s 100% organic and delicious chocolate comes wrapped in fully compostable packaging. Each chocolate bar comes in a recyclable outer paper layer and an inner foil made from Natureflex, a specially sourced, flexible cellulose film which is made from eucalyptus wood pulp.

Where to buy Seed & Bean

2. Avoid Plastic Clothes

Are you dressed in plastic? Chances are yes! Synthetic fabrics are made from plastics. Why does it matter? Because with every wash your clothes release micro-plastics, which end up in our oceans where they can be ingested by fish and some of these fish end up on our plates. And so the circle is complete: plastic clothes = plastic diet. Choosing Fairtrade cotton is choosing sustainable fashion. Sustainable for the workers, sustainable for the environment.

Where to buy Fairtrade Cotton clothes

3. Zero Waste Beauty

Fairtrade, vegan, organic cosmetics in reusable glass jars and bottles. That easily scores them a 10/10! Fair Squared is part of the Zero Waste movement… will you join them?

Find out more about Fair Squared’s beauty range

4. Recyclable coffee packs

100 million. That’s the number of non-recyclable coffee packs the UK goes through each year. Percol switched from plastic to home-compostable plant fibres and eucalyptus. Will you switch with them?

Find Percol coffee in local supermarkets such as Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Tesco, Coop, Asda, Morrisons, Foodylicious or buy Percol coffee online from Ocado and Amazon.

5. It’s time for a sustainable cuppa

Tea is the most popular drink in the world after water, with an estimated 70,000 cuppas drunk every second. But did you know that an oil-based plastic, called polypropylene, is used to seal tea bags? The widespread use of oil-based plastic in tea bags makes them difficult to recycle and re-use, and means it would take hundreds of years for them to degrade.

Clipper are doing things differently. Their special tea bags are sealed with a non-GM, plant-based material known as PLA. With Clipper, you can enjoy a cuppa that’s brewed with a plant-based, biodegradable and unbleached tea bag.

Find out more about Clipper tea

Buy Clipper Teas from their shop or find their tea in major supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Ocado and Amazon.

There’s also Greenypeeps Fairtrade and organic teas, who place their planet positive ethos at the heart of all they do. Which means no plastic in their tea packaging, none whatsoever. The sealed inner bag is made from a biodegradable cellulose derived from wood pulp and their double chamber tea bags are formed from unbleached natural pulp, tied and sealed with organic cotton.

Buy Greenypeeps teas from their online shop

6. Unpacked Shopping

Why limit yourself to a few plastic-free products when you can have a plastic-free shop? Waitrose & Partners, one of the largest Fairtrade retailers, trialled an unpacked model in Oxford and it was an overwhelming success! So much so, Waitrose Unpacked can now be found in Cheltenham, Abingdon & Wallingford. If you’re lucky enough to be a local, gather your reusable jars and bags and support this fantastic initiative.

Find out more about Waitrose & Partners’ unpacked initiative

7. Fairtrade’s tote-ally fabulous bags

Check out this fun design printed on Fairtrade cotton tote bags. Get yours and help us make trade fair as you go plastic-free.

Buy a Fairtrade tote bag

Banner photo of plastic waste by Magda Ehlers from Pexels

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There is no Climate Justice without Trade Justice

Katy O'Brien — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

by Angharad Hopkinson

Fairtrade is known for its work protecting farmers and workers around the world from exploitation. What many people don’t realise is that our work on trade and economic justice is urgently required to bring about climate justice.

Now is the time to shed light on this connection as the UK hosts this year’s United Nations climate change summit. We need to make sure that this year the voices of the most marginalised groups are heard, in ways that they haven’t been previously. Among them are the women who grow cocoa in West Africa.

During Fairtrade Fortnight this year we are once again focusing on cocoa farmers in West Africa and join them in their fight for living incomes. When cocoa farmers earn less than a living income, they can’t afford to send their children to school or provide enough nutritious food for their families. We estimate a living income for these farmers to be £1.86 a day, but now, a typical cocoa farmer in West Africa lives on less than 75p a day, with women earning as little as 23p a day.

How can we expect cocoa farmers to take expensive steps to adapt to climate change and reduce their environmental impact when they can’t afford the basics?

Fairtrade farmers must meet certain environmental standards designed to reduce pesticide use and deforestation. Fairtrade Standards forbid cutting down protected forests in order to plant more crops. The Fairtrade Minimum Price and Premium support Fairtrade farmers to make these changes, but other farmers are left without these safety nets.

Cocoa from deforested areas is far more carbon intensive than cocoa grown in previously farmed areas. In Côte d’Ivoire, it is estimated that 57% of land cultivated for cocoa outside certified sources originates from primary forest. But without action to keep farmer incomes stable, people will be forced to move into forested areas to make ends meet.

Longer term, the impact of the climate crisis, including rising temperatures and erratic rainfall, risks reducing cocoa yields. Many of the current cocoa growing regions in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire will become too hot to grow cocoa by 2050. While in other areas, increases in rainfall may create ideal conditions for the spread of cocoa pests and diseases. Ebrottié Tanoh Florentin, a cocoa farmer in Côte d’Ivoire, has spoken out about the risks faced by cocoa farming communities in West Africa.

He says that, ‘Climate change is a global issue. We, the farmers, have to deal with its consequences every day. For instance, this year we lacked food because of the heat. The production decreased this year too, so this affects the economy. People harvested less and received less money. So we all suffer from the negative consequences of the climate: it impacts the environment and our economy.’

It is vital, therefore, that farmers receive the support they need to cope with the effects of climate change. We’d like the chocolate industry take an approach to living income that would see not just the payment of sustainable prices, but also support for farmers to produce more on less land and to grow other crops that are resistant to the effects of climate change.

Supporting living incomes is necessary both to help cocoa farmers cope with the worst effects of climate breakdown, and to prevent deforestation linked to cocoa production from making it even worse.

There is no climate justice without trade justice. Cocoa farmers are on the front line of the climate emergency. By buying Fairtrade you are supporting biodiversity, environmentally friendly farming and helping farmers adapt to and mitigate against the effects of climate change.

Find out how you can get involved with our campaign calling for cocoa farmers to earn a living income:

She Deserves a Living Income

Where to buy Fairtrade products

Useful links

Fairtrade Fortnight 2020

Living Income explanation

Fairtrade’s environmental Standards

Climate change food calculator (BBC)

Predicting the future climatic suitability for cocoa farming of the world’s leading producer countries

Climate Smart cocoa – World Cocoa Foundation

8 ways Fairtrade farmers protect the environment

4 June, 2018

Farmers say the climate emergency is one of the number one threats they face. Millions of farmers around the world who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods are among the worst affected.

Climate crisis: Fairtrade farmers speak out

23 June, 2019

The climate crisis is already badly affecting global food production. Fairtrade farmers like Ebrottié in Côte d’Ivoire, Zeddy in Kenya and Theresa in Nicaragua, suffer the effects, leaving them working longer, for less, and damaging their community.

Banner photo: Kouame N’Guessan Therese, Fairtrade Cocoa Farmer in Côte d’Ivoire

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7 ways shoppers are acting more sustainably

Katy O'Brien — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

by Emma Vass, CEO at Wessanen UK (owner of founding Fairtrade tea brand, Clipper Teas)

People are beginning to think differently when it comes to grocery shopping. Not only are we thinking about price, we are also starting to consider how the product was made and the impact it has on both people and the planet.

The message about plastic is loud and clear; reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s perhaps the simplicity of this message and the power of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet that has driven this home. But what active steps are people taking to be more environmentally friendly, improve their diets or give back to the people who made their products? Based on recent research, commissioned by Wessanen UK, here are seven changes we have made in 2019 to improve our impact on the planet.

1. Avoiding food waste

Food waste is a major contributor to climate change. From large hotel chains to cooking at home in the kitchen, everyone has a role to play in reducing food waste. Change has already started happening as 49% of consumers say they have started taking steps to avoid food waste.

12 tips for reducing food waste

2. Recycling more rubbish

With growing awareness around plastic pollution, 48% of UK residents are starting to realise that one way to reduce the amount of waste ending up in landfill, is to recycle it wherever possible. Improving recyclability is a priority for many ethically minded businesses, giving people more opportunity to recycle.

3. Eating less meat or dairy

The vegan trend has gained significant momentum over the last 12 months and 22% of us have reduced the amount of meat or dairy we eat. Whether you’ve taken a fully plant-based approach or have just made a conscious decision to cut back, any action to reduce the amount of meat we consume in the UK will have a positive effect on the planet.

Discover 10 vegan and Fairtrade products

4. Avoiding single-use plastic

Not buying single-use plastic takes effort. It’s used in so many everyday items making it hard to avoid. Though 40% of Brits have made a conscious attempt to avoid it in the last 12 months, which is great to see.

7 Fairtrade switches to cut your plastic use

5. Changing how we travel

It’s not a viable action for everyone, but those who can have made some changes to how they travel. 19% of us are now opting to use public transport more often and 15% have even cut back on air travel. Getting out on a bike or allowing time to walk are also great ways to reduce carbon emissions and help us get fit in the process.

6. Actively looking for ethical certifications

The FAIRTRADE mark has been around for 25 years now and awareness is increasing all the time. 62% of people now actively look for the FAIRTRADE mark when shopping for groceries. We’re proud that Clipper Teas was one of the founding Fairtrade tea brands. The tea bags are unbleached, non-GM and plastic-free too.

7. Using fewer plastic bags

Images of supermarket carrier bags turning up on the coast of Malaysia, packs a powerful punch. The very reasons they are so effective – strong and durable – are also the reasons why they can be so damaging to the environment as they don’t break down. After the introduction of the 5p charge, Brits have really cut back on their reliance of the plastic carrier bag and 56% say they’re now using fewer plastic bags.

The key findings from Wessanen UK’s sustainable grocery shopper report, based on over 2,000 UK adults, is available here: Read Wessanen UK’s shopper report

Fairtrade products you didn’t know were vegan

27 December, 2022

Trying Veganuary this year or just fancy cutting back on meat and dairy? The good news is that there are many products available that are both vegan and Fairtrade.

7 Fairtrade Switches to cut your plastic use

18 September, 2021

Banner photo by Laura Mitulla on Unsplash

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Why fairer trade is crucial to fighting the climate crisis

Mike Gidney, CEO Fairtrade Foundation — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

by Mike Gidney

‘The fight for democracy and justice and the fight against environmental breakdown are one and the same.’ – George Monbiot

2019 has felt like a pivotal year in which the world’s climate at last became recognised as the key issue of our time, not least through the remarkable activism of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, along with the globe-spanning climate strikes of Fridays for Future and through movements such as Extinction Rebellion. At this critical moment for the world’s future, Fairtrade calls on governments to take decisive action and on consumers to consider how the fight for fairer trade is crucial to fighting climate change.

The climate emergency strikes at the heart of Fairtrade’s mission to support and empower smallholder farmers. Our aim is to end unjust trade and realise secure, sustainable livelihoods for farmers, producers and workers in the global South. Sadly, climate change has been impacting such communities for many years, as populations dependent on agriculture are disproportionately vulnerable to the consequences of global warming. Smallholder farmers live at the frontline of the crisis, facing increasing struggles caused by droughts, floods and unpredictable, changing weather. And as well as erratic weather patterns, climate change is leading to the emergence of new pests and the rapid spread of diseases.

Many poor farmers and workers in developing countries (who have done least to cause the crisis) have already been forced to abandon their fields and migrate. Today over 12 million people have experienced poverty as a result of climate change, with many more likely to follow – the climate crisis is predicted to push more than 100m people in the global South below the poverty line by 2030.

‘There is a chain on earth that starts where the producers are. They are the ones who suffer the consequences of climate change, the ones who get the least help, and carry all of the burden. It’s not fair.‘ Bayardo Betanco, Prodecoop coffee co-operative, Nicaragua.

In coffee production, the changing climate is causing worrying and significant damage. Ethiopia’s average annual temperature, for example, rose by 1.3°C between 1960 and 2006. In Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras rainfall has declined by up to 15 per cent since the 1980s. It is estimated that roughly 50% of the surface area currently being used for coffee farming may no longer be suitable by the year 2050 as a result of climate change, with production being forced away from the equator and into higher altitudes. This presents a clear risk of deforestation, as well as to biodiversity and indigenous communities, meanwhile most coffee farmers have little option to relocate their farms. The Coffee Berry Borer, a pest originating in the Congo, is now seen around the ‘Bean Belt’, causing $500m in damages each year. The borer was once limited to crops grown below 1500m above sea level, but is now seen much higher due to hotter and wetter conditions. Further warming of just 1-2°C will see the borer’s numbers explode further still. Meanwhile coffee farms in Latin America are seeing worsening cases of the fungal disease leaf rust, which devastated 70% of the coffee harvest in El Salvador in 2014.

These issues are not limited to coffee. In bananas, producers have been hit by severe outbreaks of the ‘red rust thrips’ pest, believed to be triggered by the climate crisis. In 2013, this affected 40 percent of organic farms in Piura, Peru and reduced exports by 30 percent. Meanwhile sugar farmers in Malawi, who earlier this year had hoped for a bumper harvest after two years of dry weather, were tragically hit by Cyclone Idai which caused catastrophic damage to their homes and crops. Malawi is the fourth poorest country in the world according to the IMF, and climate change is adding severe pressure to already precarious livelihoods. Rising temperatures are also affecting cocoa harvests in west Africa, where warmer conditions and irregular rains are resulting in food insecurity and lower yields which can often increase deforestation. It is all too clear that climate change is exacerbating the poverty already faced by farmers, and that women often seem to be disproportionately affected when things go wrong.

‘Climate change is a global issue. We, the farmers, have to deal with its consequences every day.’ Ebrottié Tanoh Florentin, a cocoa farmer and General Secretary of his co-operative CEAA in Côte d’Ivoire.

Whilst the climate crisis can often feel overwhelming, there are things we can all to do help. Environmental protection, for example, is deeply ingrained in Fairtrade. All products bearing the FAIRTRADE Mark comply with a robust and demanding set of environmental standards – in fact 27% of the criteria in the Small Producer Standard are environmental. To sell Fairtrade products, farmers have to improve soil and water quality, manage pests, avoid using harmful chemicals, manage waste, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and protect biodiversity. FLOCERT, the independent certifier for the Fairtrade system, checks whether farms are based in protected forests, and co-operatives with members in these areas cannot become Fairtrade-certified. Fairtrade’s rigorous environmental standards promote sustainable development through best practice, not only guiding producers to adapt to climate change, but also providing training to help them mitigate their impact.

Beyond our standards, many Fairtrade co-operatives choose to invest their Fairtrade Premium in reforestation projects. Planting trees on cleared, degraded land prevents soil erosion and binds and stores carbon dioxide. The trees also improve biodiversity, protect soils, and provide a habitat for indigenous wildlife. Sireet OEP is a tea producing co-operative involved in reforestation in Kenya where members have used their Premium to establish tree nurseries and provide training in reducing deforestation. Over 150,000 trees have already been planted. At COOCAFE in Costa Rica, the Premium has also been invested in a reforestation programme. So far, 5,000 hectares have been reforested and farmers are planting shade trees on their coffee farms, which not only helps to capture carbon but also increases the quality of their coffee. And in central Nicaragua, COOMPROCOM began its reforestation projects in 2010 with support from Fairtrade partners. It now has 16 new areas of reforested land and 60 per cent of its members are planting new coffee and shade trees.

‘We don’t see it as just a product in a cup – because behind every cup lies a forest that is being protected.’ Fatima Ismael, General Manager of SOPPEXCCA coffee co-operative, Nicaragua.

Fairtrade’s partners also support our environmental efforts by sponsoring programmes to provide expertise, greener energy and to encourage carbon reduction. These include the Climate Academy in Kenya (2017-2020), a training and technical support programme formed to increase the climate resilience of coffee farmers. And in West Africa, we are looking to pilot the production of drought-resistant yams on cocoa farms to promote food security and diversification. Meanwhile Oromia Co-operative in Ethiopia has taken part in the carbon credit initiative to purchase biogas stoves, equipping 10,000 coffee farmers with 20,000 efficient cookstoves which reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 percent.

Fairtrade has been battling against climate change for some time, but we want to go further. This is why Fairtrade will be renewing its focus on climate during our next five-year strategy (2021-25), and will work on further reducing our own emissions as a movement in line with the recommendations of climate scientists. This includes looking honestly at the carbon footprint of trade, as well as acknowledging and addressing very hard questions, such as the sustainability of the range of products currently exported from the global South to the global North. As well as fairness, Fairtrade is committed to evidence-based, low carbon production across its categories, and Fairtrade will often be by far the most climate friendly choice, as well as one which helps vulnerable farmers adapt to the climate emergency.

With the next COP taking place in Glasgow in 2020, we will continue our efforts to make sure producers’ voices are heard in the UK and beyond. That is why the Fairtrade Foundation is part of the Climate Coalition, a group of over 130 organisations across the UK, working towards a world powered by clean and secure energy. We will continue to advocate for the end of unfair trading practices, power imbalances across supply chains and unsustainable production and consumption. It is clear that injustice and climate change are intrinsically linked and so are their solutions. To farmers, every year matters, each decision counts and every 0.1°C is crucial. Our movement’s call to action to the Parties of the UNFCCC at COP25 is clear. We want smallholder farmers, those at the forefront of the climate crisis, to be part of the solution. And for consumers, we hope you will choose Fairtrade to support producers in the fight for climate justice. Because if we value our planet, it is clear we must also value our famers.

Useful links

A Brewing Storm: The climate change risks to coffee (pdf)

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10 ways Fairtrade helps advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Heather Nicholson — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Here are ten ways Fairtrade contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

1. Goal 1: end poverty in all its forms everywhere

The Fairtrade Minimum Price is a safety net for 1.6 million farmers and workers in more than 75 countries, protecting them from volatile markets and ensuring they can better cover their cost of sustainable production to achieve Goal 1: end poverty in all its forms everywhere. Coffee farmers hit by the current global price crash are among those benefitting.

2. Goal 2: end hunger, achieve food security…

The Fairtrade Access Fund has disbursed more than US$128 million to date benefitting 252,000 smallholder farmers in 18 countries, contributing to Goal 2: end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Fairtrade also provides technical support for smallholders – such as the Zawadi women coffee farmers – to add value to their commodities.

3. Goal 5: gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

Fairtrade’s standards contribute to Goal 5: gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls by prohibiting gender discrimination, sexual harassment and gender based violence, as well as promoting entitlements for parental leave, pregnant and breastfeeding women. Fairtrade also runs gender leadership schools and facilitates seed funding for women’s initiatives through the Fairtrade Premium.

4. Goal 8: decent work for all

In line with Goal 8: decent work for all, the Fairtrade Hired Labour Standard ensures more than 200,000 workers making our tea, flowers, footballs and textiles enjoy better working conditions. They benefit from better terms of employment covering working hours and overtime, contracts and temporary work, together with core workers’ rights such as collective bargaining and freedom of association. The standard also ensures they benefit from the use of protective clothing, safe handling of hazardous materials, building safety, grievance procedures and child care.

5. Goal 10: reduce inequalities

The Fairtrade Standards help Goal 10: reduce inequalities by prohibiting discrimination and promoting equality. Women, youth and migrant workers in rural communities are better equipped and more confident to take part in decision making in their cooperatives and plantations. They are also protected from gender based violence and other forms of discrimination in recruitment, training and promotion, and they gain from technical support and upskilling to secure decent incomes. Among those to gain better treatment are Haitian migrant banana workers in the Dominican Republic.

6. Goal 12: sustainable consumption

Fairtrade is the only ethical standard working on both ends of the supply chain towards Goal 12: sustainable consumption and production patterns. At one end, producer organisations are supported to comply with Fairtrade environmental and social standards (including no GMO and no child or forced labour). At the other end, traders and buyers are also held accountable through the Fairtrade Trader Standards which covers transparent contracts, fair prices, openness about sourcing and market prospects, pre-financing for producers and compliance with labour and environmental law.

7. Goal 13: combat climate change

Fairtrade is taking action on Goal 13: combat climate change and its impacts on farmers and workers, who are on the frontline of climate risks. Fairtrade promotes climate resilient agriculture through its standards and programmes to protect the environment and biodiversity. More and more farmers are harvesting rain water, planting shade trees, switching to biogas and renewable energy sources, and investing in integrated pest management, organic fertilisers and dynamic agroforestry. The Fairtrade Climate Standard is the first of its kind to address imbalances in the carbon market and ensure a fair financial return for the producers.

8. Goal 16: building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions

Fairtrade embeds Goal 16: building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions in its own internal governance and accountability. It is the only global ethical label 50 percent owned and run by farmers and workers themselves. Fairtrade cooperatives, which must abide by the Fairtrade standard requirements of being democratic, transparent and inclusive, can negotiate better deals with traders and access credit, insurance and other financial services. They decide for themselves how to spend the Fairtrade Premium, whether improving productivity or addressing their community’s sustainable development priorities.

9. Goal 17: global partnerships for sustainable development

Fairtrade brings together more than 1.7 million farmers and workers, 1600 producer organisations, and countless trade unions, consumers and campaigners from all over the world to realise Goal 17: global partnerships for sustainable development. More than 2,100 towns, cities, schools, universities and faith based organisations support and promote the Fairtrade principles. Fairtrade partners with more than 4000 businesses to deliver real impact for farmers and workers, and works with governments to bring about fairer trading practices – essential for sustainable economic growth. That’s why governments support Fairtrade’s approach.

10. Goals 3, 4 and 6: health, education and sanitation

The Fairtrade Premium enables rural communities to invest and advance other Global Goals. Since the SDGs were launched in 2015, more than €500 million of Fairtrade Premium has funded schools, healthcare and clean drinking water (Goal 3: good Health and Well Being, Goal 4: quality education and Goal 6: clean water and sanitation).

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Shoppers are demanding sustainable options – are companies getting on board?

Fairtrade International — Tue, 07 May 2019 23:00:00 +0000

More and more of us are expressing our values through our everyday shopping. We increasingly demand more information about what goes into our food and other purchases, where they come from and how they are made.

Brands are responding with a bewildering range of labels and claims from organic to vegan, from ‘sustainably sourced’ to ‘cruelty free’, on everything from ice cream to hand cream.

World Fair Trade Day is a good time to look at which ethical and sustainability considerations are most important for consumers. What do shoppers want to know? Are they influenced by companies’ sustainability claims, or do they need to see that brands are actually ‘walking the talk’? And as consumers ourselves, do our choices really make a difference?

Environmental impact and fair wages are top of mind for shoppers

According to new research across 5,000 consumers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, the vast majority of us takes sustainability into account when shopping for everyday products such as food, drinks, and cosmetics.

The survey was commissioned by a consortium of fair trade and ethical fashion organisations, including Fairtrade International, as part of the European Union-funded project Trade Fair, Live Fair.

Nearly four in ten consumers said their top priority is that food and drink is produced in a way that doesn’t harm the environment, while just under a third prioritised paying workers a fair, living wage and ensuring that animals are not harmed during production.

Overall, when asked to choose from seven possible sustainability attributes that also included local or organic production, recyclable packaging and safe working conditions, only nine percent of those surveyed said none of the issues were important to them.

The survey reveals interesting differences between countries. Germans rated animal friendly production and being locally grown as the top two priorities (45 and 38 percent respectively), while UK consumers rated environmentally friendly production and recyclable packaging the highest (37 percent each), while locally grown was less important (17 percent).

Consumers demand more transparency and want companies to tackle global issues

Despite these different priorities, it’s clear that overall, consumers want to know what brands are doing to make a difference, both within their own supply chains and globally.

Three-quarters of all respondents wanted food companies to say where the ingredients in their products come from, and a similar number wanted to know how their food is produced. Sixty-one percent look for information about how food companies protect workers’ human rights.

The European findings are echoed in a global study by Accenture of 35,000 people in 35 countries which reveals that two-thirds of consumers make decisions about what to buy based on a company’s transparency. Sixty-two percent want companies to have ethical values and demonstrate authenticity.

Respondents to the Trade Fair, Live Fair survey placed even stronger emphasis on brands taking action on key global challenges, including protecting the environment (88 percent citing it as important), tackling climate change (85 percent), global poverty (84 percent) and gender inequality (77 percent).

Trust is key to drive a cycle of increasing sustainability

The research highlights consumers’ desire for transparency, which leads to trust. Companies need to back up their sustainability claims, for example by being independently certified. A recent GlobeScan survey of more than 9,000 consumers in eight countries, including the biggest markets in the world, showed that 85 percent of those who recognise the Fairtrade label trust it, and 69 percent said the label makes it easy for them to decide whether a product is responsibly produced.

The good news is that when people vote with their wallets, companies get the message and respond. Last year, the Dutch supermarket Coop switched entirely to Fairtrade bananas. The German retailer Lidl did the same across several European countries. Nespresso has also expanded its Fairtrade sourcing, and UK supermarket chain Waitrose has committed to using all Fairtrade cocoa in its own-brand confectionery products by the end of 2019. Brands can and will do more when the demand is there.

Governments also have a big part to play, more than 70 percent of the shoppers surveyed in the Trade Fair, Live Fair research said law makers must do more to support sustainable consumption.

Consumers are making informed choices about everyday shopping. Governments, backed by public pressure, are playing a stronger policy role. Businesses are cleaning up their supply chains and offering more sustainable options. Through this virtuous cycle we, consumers, companies, civil society and governments, can all help drive progress towards fairer trade and a more sustainable future for all of us, especially for farmers and workers. A decent living. Safe working conditions where human rights are respected for all. Environmental protection. Climate resilience.

On World Fair Trade Day, let’s commit to getting there, together.

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Kelly Hawrylyshyn, author of this blog, is the Senior Advisor, Global Resource Mobilization at Fairtrade International.

The Trade Fair, Live Fair project, funded by the European Union, joins the collective forces of 21 organisations and certification schemes working on fair trade and ethical fashion, including Fairtrade International, to make progress on sustainable production and consumption (SDG12). The opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of Fairtrade International and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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