Fair tradeEnglish project – 2.b

→ fights against poverty, climate change and global economic crises

→The World Bank reports that more than one billion people still live at or below $1.25 a day

→The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) believes that trade must benefit the most vulnerable and deliver sustainable livelihoods by developing opportunities especially for small and disadvantaged producers

→recurring global economic crises and persistent poverty in many countries confirm the demand for a fair and sustainable economy locally and globally→Fair Trade is our response

What did we find?

SugarBritish consumers and companies choosing Fairtrade sugar sent more than 5 million pounds in Fairtrade premium back to sugar cane smallholders last year.

Cocoa90% of the world’s coca is grown on small family farms by about 6 millon farmers who earn their living from growning and selling cocoa beans. The primary growing regions are Africa, Asia and Latin america. Fairtrade helps to make cocoa farming in places like Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana more suistainble so farmers can provide for themselves and their families.

MaltesersMaltesers became Fairtrade certified in 2012. Harriet Lamb, former Fairtrade Foundation Executive Director, said: “THIS GIVES A SIGNIFICANT BOOST TO SMALLHOLDER FARMERS TO BUILD THEIR ORGANISATIONS AND INVEST IN A BRIGHTER FUTURE.” The cocoa would come from co-operatives in West Africa, a move that would contribute in excess of US $1 million in annual Fairtrade Premium funds for cocoa farmers to invest in their farms, business organisations and communities.

Wine

BionellaBionella is a chocolate-nougat cream. It's made of cocoa, vanilla, hazelnuts, palm oil and other products that are produced in developing countries like Ghana, Dominican Republic and on Madagascar, that are a part of the Fair Trade cooperation. The company Rapunzel that produces Bionella guarantees that producing Bionella was fairly paid for to all the workers in developing countries.

ChocholateThe Maestrani is a Swiss chocholate factory that is in the Fair-trade partnership. It is made from Cocoa from Peru and sugar from Paraguay. 75% of the money they make from these products is sent to Paraguay and Peru to try and assure some drinkable water sources in these areas.

Noir Intense

A seemingly perfect blend of Peruvian cocoa beans, cocoa butter from Paraguay, and whole cane sugar from the Dominican Republic... all fair trade and organic... prepared in a highly traditional, time consuming manner. Noir Intense was selected for the best chocolate, out of 24 leading brands by Que Coisir (consumer reaserch association in France), not only for it's taste but also due to other factors: using only cocoa butter, no other fats, having complete traceability, and being committed to fair trade. If buying Noir Intense in Alter Eco shops you are also financing a project to reduce the negative effects of CO2. Plan of the project is to plant 2 million trees of various species in 5 years, which will capture nearly 1 millon tons of CO2.

On 20/3/2014 in Berlin, Kaufland recieved the award in the category of „trade” for repeated commitment to Fair Trade. Kaufland promotes Fair Trade through advertising in newspapers and on the Internet. Kaufland promotes fair Trade even through emlpoyees.

Shower gelUterkram’s Brown Sugar range is not only fairtrade, it’s Organic too. The organic Brown Sugar is sourced from Paraguay, where the farmers have fair working conditions and are guaranteed a good price for their sugar. And that enables them to fund their children’s schooling and electricity supplies to their houses.

LushOrganic cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is obtained from the cacao tree, which is grown without the use of pesticides, fertilisers or herbicides. Our organic cocoa butter is also Fairtrade, and comes all the way from the sunny islands of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. In the Dominican Republic, cocoa production represents around 90% of the local communities.