The Fairtrade Price The trading conditions in many commodity markets, such as tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton make it very difficult for producers to earn a living. Farmers are often paid prices which don’t begin to cover the cost of production. By requiring companies to pay sustainable prices for commodities, Fairtrade seeks to address the…
Month: July 2014
Raise a glass to a decade of Fairtrade wine
The story of Fairtrade wine at the Co-operative begins even before there was any agreed international criteria for wine to carry the Fairtrade Mark. The Co-operative working with Traidcraft the UK’s largest Fairtrade organisation took the pioneering step to set up a relationship with Los Robles co-operative in Chile to source a wine produced…
Matlock a Fairtrade Town 