Flowers are big business in Kenya. In 2018 floriculture earned KES113 billion (around €976 million), making it the fourth largest contributor of foreign exchange. But this year, the coronavirus ...
Two Fairtrade certified coffee cooperatives in Peru are using Fairtrade Premium funds to buy and deliver food packages to the elderly and others in their communities.
As fears of a long-term economic downturn increase, a living income - defined as enough to cover essential needs such as food, water, housing, health care, and weather unexpected events - becomes ...
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic it’s easy to forget about Easter. UK-based Divine Chocolate showed their appreciation of frontline medics with a delivery of Fairtrade Easter eggs.
Read how COVID-19 is affecting Fairtrade producers in flowers, bananas, coffee, cocoa, tea, cotton and sugar, and how they are supporting their communities..
Fairtrade International announced increased flexibility in its standards to enable producer organizations to take immediate action to protect the health and livelihoods of farmers, workers and their ...
Fairtrade is gathering and sharing updates about how COVID-19 is affecting small-scale farmers and workers in products such as coffee, flowers, cocoa and bananas.
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There’s happiness in the cooperative! Before [Fairtrade] we didn’t earn enough. Now when I get ill the coop looks after me. Before people came, bought our cocoa and we never saw them again.Issouf Traore, cocoa farmer, ECOOKIM - ECOJAD, Côte d'Ivoire