Benefits of Fair Trade
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade guarantees economic, environmental, social and political long-term sustainability. Small farmers can continue to live in their community and support their families. Without fair trade, families are forced to abandon their farms and emigrate to the cities to find alternative work. We can witness the devastating impact of unfair trade on the lives of people in the city slums around the world.
Fair trade is not only a voice of the poor producers but also redresses worldwide social and economic injustices.
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Economic benefits
Choosing fairtrade products will guarantee that more of your money goes to the producers and not to the innumerable intermediaries.
In the long term, the fair trade alternative is the least expensive and the most economic investment. In fact, it is one of the cheaper ways to address the world's main problems. It not only addresses economic issues, but environmental and social issues as well.
Environmental benefits
At the opposite end of modern industrial farming, traditional farming methods guarantee environmental diversity. For example: coffee grown under trees in native forests provides habitats for migratory songbirds and other forms of life.
Small farmers grow large varieties of crops, which help to conserve soil, water and plant diversity.
Fair trade helps small farmers to shift to organic farming thereby increasing the sustainability of their farms and their economic independence from harmful chemical inputs.
Social benefits
Keeping farmers on their land is the key to a strong and diversified local economy.Paying them a Fair Price means each community can determine its own development. It empowers them to become self-sufficient, enables them to trade with northern retailers on equal terms instead of being dependent on aid.