In My Sustainable World
Every purchase plants a fairer future.
Fair trade means the people who grow your coffee and stitch your clothes get paid fairly and treated with dignity. Learn the facts, meet the faces, and take action.
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It's not charity. It's fairness, built into the price.
Most of what you pay for coffee or chocolate never reaches the person who grew it. Fair trade changes the split.
The farmer's slice
Traders, brands, shops
Illustrative, based on a typical chocolate bar. Fair trade works to grow the farmer's slice and hold it steady when prices crash.
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1.9M
farmers & workers across the Fairtrade system
30,000+
Fairtrade products you can already buy
1.5M
children estimated to work in West African cocoa
1988
the year the first fair trade label launched
Sources on the Facts page.