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Thousands of Products Improving Millions of Lives

Fair Trade Certified™ is an award-winning, rigorous, and globally recognized sustainable sourcing model that improves livelihoods, protects the environment, and builds resilient, transparent supply chains.
Why Fair Trade

The Impact of Fair Trade Certification

When you see our Fair Trade Certified label on a product, you can trust that it was made according to rigorous standards that protect the livelihoods of farmers, fishers, and other producer communities and the environment.

Farmers, fishers, and workers are not guaranteed a minimum price or adequately compensated for their production; they are often not made aware of their rights or aren't encouraged to provide feedback on improvements or needs.

Less visibility into supply chains and lack of standards can result in exploitation of workers and the environment

No extra income provided for community investments

Guaranteed minimum price that acts as a safety net for coffee farmers and producers when the market prices are low

Rigorous Fair Trade Certified standards ensure safe and healthy working conditions, the elimination of forced/child labor, fair and consistent compensation, and environmental protections and product traceability

Producer communities receive additional compensation through Community Development Funds

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Fair trade products are constantly expanding into new categories and retail locations, making it easier than ever to shop your values! Use your purchasing power for good by choosing from the thousands of items that feature the Fair Trade Certified label.

We work with more than 1,500 trailblazing partners that have transformed their business with Fair Trade Certified. As a leading third-party certifier of fair trade products, our model is based on rigorously-maintained standards that set the global benchmark for sustainable sourcing.

Ricardo Crisantes, Co-Owner and CCO

Producer, Brand | Wholesum

"Fair trade is one of the most credible and effective certification models on the market that helps farmers improve their lives and develop their communities more sustainably. I've seen it's powerful impact first hand on our family's farms."

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By partnering with us, you'll be joining a diverse network of producers, companies, shoppers, and advocates who are committed to building a more equitable model of trade.
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Fair Trade Certified is an award-winning sustainable sourcing model that improves livelihoods and builds resilient transparent supply chains.

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Trusted ethical ratings of fashion brands in the palm of your hand. There's an app for that.

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Interdependence of countries to work together to solve environmental problems. Often dealing with the problems globalization causes.

ex. Going green, working together to make a better living environment, dealing with global warming, stopping big businesses from continuing to harm the environment (cutting down trees, pumping hazardous waste into streams, etc.)

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Spread of cultures across national borders.

ex. Exchange of food, traditions, music, dance, etc.

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Political issues in one part of the world directly or indirectly affect many other areas
-Organizations composed of many Nations work together to pursue common goals. (United Nations)
-National policies of one country are intertwined with those of other countries and many national problems can be solved through global cooperation.

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-Nations exchange of products, services, and labor
-Consumers worldwide use similar products made by the same corporation.
-Economies around the world develop greater capability to produce and export goods as they obtain capital, technology, and access to distribution networks (better ways to export goods/services).
-Includes movement of people and the exchange of ideas.

ex. Engineers from India, Japan, Germany who work for Hewlett-Packard work with their American counterparts in California

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Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange. Globalisation has increased the production of goods and services. The biggest companies are no longer national firms but multinational corporations with subsidiaries in many countries.

Globalisation has been taking place for hundreds of years, but has sped up enormously over the last half-century.

Globalisation has resulted in:

increased international trade

a company operating in more than one country

greater dependence on the global economy

freer movement of capital, goods, and services

recognition of companies such as McDonalds and Starbucks in

Although globalisation is probably helping to create more wealth in developing countries - it is helping to close the gap between the world's poorest countries and the world's richest.

The animation shows how wealth is distributed. Click on the income brackets to see where the richest and poorest countries are located.

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What is globalisation? - Globalisation - GCSE Geography Revision - BBC Bitesize

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Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange. Globalisation has increased the production of goods and services. The biggest companies are no longer national firms but multinational corporations with subsidiaries in many countries.

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Globalization I - The Upside: Crash Course World History #41