Fairtrade

What is Fairtrade?

Enjoy great products, fairly traded

Much of our food and drink comes from the Third World, yet many growers find it hard to make a living. Fairtrade helps to ensure decent working conditions and a better quality of life for the growers.

The Fairtrade Mark

The Fairtrade Mark was introduced in order to help consumers buy fairly traded goods.

Products that carry the Fairtrade Mark are independently guaranteed to meet internationally recognised fair trade standards. Criteria include:

• decent wages
• minimum health and safety standards
• a fair price
• a long term commitment
• good environmental standards

For more information contact the Fairtrade Foundation

Find out more about Bristol as a Fairtrade City

A number of companies also produce fairly traded goods that do not carry the Fairtrade Mark. There are many good schemes, but because there is no independent verification, and consumers need to make their own decision about each scheme.

Fairtrade Mark products

These are some of the goods you can buy, which carry the Fairtrade Mark

• Coffee - a full range of high quality coffees is available, both ground and instant, including decaffeinated.
• Cafedirect and Percol are the most common brands
• Tea - both leaf tea and teabags are available. Brands include Teadirect, Clipper, Ridgways and Equal Exchange
• Chocolate - you can buy a range of delicious, high quality chocolate. Look for Green and Black's, Divine, Dubble, and Oxfam Masca Cocoa - Green and Black's, Oxfam, Equal Exchange
• Bananas - look for the Fairtrade mark in Co-op and Sainsbury's stores
• Fruit juice - passion fruit, orange, breakfast and tropical juices
• Snack bars - Traidcraft Geo bars
• Sugar and honey - Traidcraft and Equal Exchange raw cane sugar and Equal Exchange organic honey in golden clear and set varieties.
• Mangoes - only available at Co-op stores at present.

Many retailers are interested in selling some Fairtrade goods or increasing their range.
They respond to what their customers want, so ask for Fairtrade! Find out more about Fairtrade in Bristol

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