Fairtrade International

  • Getting fair funding into farmers’ pockets

    MICHIAL SALLAETS on a $5m investment fund aimed at improving smallholders’ lives as well as helping their business grow.                   Getting finance for their small-scale businesses in a fair and sustainable way… Read More

  • Fairtrade farmers enjoy lift in sales and numbers

    THE TOTAL number of small-scale farmers involved in Fairtrade schemes has topped one million. By the end of 2011, sales revenues on Fairtrade terms were also 26% higher than the previous year.   The data comes rom a stretching new… Read More

  • Tea coalition launched

    BRITS MAY make 165 million cups of tea a day, but the nation’s favourite brew faces a number of challenges to survive. Climate change, water scarcity and competition for land use are all expected to combine to make those 165… Read More