Fairtrade Research

Fairtrade is a simple way to make a difference to the lives of the people who grow the things we love. They do this by changing the way trade works through better prices, decent working conditions and fair deal for farmers and workers in developing countries. 


These are some of the products that Fairtrade produces:
Chocolate-  Fairtrade helps to make cocoa farming in places like Ivory Coast and Ghana more sustainable by guaranteeing minimum prices and providing a premium to invest in local communities, so farmers can provide a better future for themselves and their families.

• Cadbury- Cadbury Dairy Milk has been Fairtrade since 2009 and was the first mainstream chocolate brand to become Fairtrade certified.
• M&S- M&S offer 8 different flavours of Fairtrade chocolate bars which are available in store and as part of their online gift offer. 
• Sainsbury's-  100% of Sainsbury's Taste the Difference single origin white, dark and milk chocolate are Fairtrade. 

Bananas- bananas are grown both on small family farms and much large commercial plantations. The banana industry provides employment for thousands of people in Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. It generates vital foreign exchange earnings that governments depend on to improve health, education, infrastructure and other social services. 

• The Co-operative- the first UK supermarket to sell Fairtrade bananas and first to sell it in all stores. Today all their bananas are Fairtrade. 
• Waitrose- waitrose is the first retailer to sell 100% Fairtrade bananas. 
• Sainsbury's- Sainsbury's was the first major UK supermarket to convert its bananas to 100%  Fairtrade in 2007. 

Fairtrade campaign to raise awareness of the needs of producers in developing countries, convince people of the good reasons to buy Fairtrade products and to persuade policymakers to change the fundamentally unfair trade system.