Fair Trade Certified

Fair Trade Certified www.transfairusa.org/content/support When you buy Fair Trade Certified coffee, tea, rice, tropical fruit, or chocolate, you are enabling farmers to live with dignity and invest in their families, their communities, and the environment. Buying fair-trade helps sow the seeds for a better life for producers and their families around the world. 

Wholesome Sweeteners This company tries to work with fair trade—certified farm cooperatives whenever possible, which means the small farms are paid fairly and directly. This helps support families, farmers, and the local community. The company also recycles fuel to generate electricity for its mill and nearby villages. Its sugar is organic and hand-cultivated. You can even go on the Web site to find the farm that sourced your sweetener. 

Those who are willing to pay extra for goods traded in an ethical manner do so based on the understanding that significantly improved livelihoods result from the premium paid for fair trade and/or organic certified produce. Statements on packaging of ethically traded products relating to the impact on the livelihoods of producer communities serve to link consumption and production for the consumer. 

The ICS that are certified to lOAS-accredited certification body standards are compelled (as of the 2002 IBS revision) to comply with chapter 8 on social justice (see Box 14.2) as well as the rest of the IBS. In addition, many ICSs are part of producer cooperatives that also have fair trade certification. As such, additional social justice and development standards are in place - the regulatory and collaboration dimensions. The learning element of ICSs is perhaps the most dynamic and interesting. Extension is an integral and essential aspect of ICSs - and is predominantly used for technical issues. Elowever, ICSs, once in place are often a framework for other kinds of development and learning (e.g. parallel systems - HIV/AIDS education in Uganda via EPOPA Projects, local community economics in Thailand). 

Income and benefits for organic trade are not always equally distributed. How can organic trade guarantee a fair share of consumers expenditure to all participants in the value chain, especially to producers Is certified fair trade the right and only answer to this question ... 

Nonprofit organization, one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the US. 

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