The Benefits

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The benefits generated by the fair trade implemented in various forms at different levels. There is a range of direct and indirect benefits to producers and agencies as well as for consumers and importers.

Economic benefits

The long-standing commercial relationship and the guaranteed lower prices lead to economic stability and security to entire communities.
Social and human impact

The fair trade promotes dignity and empowerment in multiple areas:

  •   The living conditions better. The social security means that communities benefit from better opportunities in the form of education, health and long-term employability, and to acquire all these expectations for a better life.
  •     The democratic decision-making processes thrive. Suppliers and importers contacted in equal level.
  •     The workers enjoy political freedom and the right to create free societies, where they can express their views and to organize to assert their rights.
  •     Consumers have a voice and can participate actively in a social justice movement by making known issues and influencing the habits of other consumers, and influencing policy.


Ecological impact

  •      Small-scale rural art often uses organic methods by default, and this results in direct and lasting benefits to the environment and the lives of farmers and their families.
  •      The existence of production methods of small-scale helps to stop the spread of deforestation.


The end of mass unfair exploitation

For workers, the success of products fair trade means that a huge change can happen in life, and so it is vital that their products receive the support they deserve. The industries in which they operate programs fair trade are among those conducting the largest industrial farm in the world:

  •   Cocoa / Child labor

      In West Africa, which produces the majority of the world's cocoa, there are too many cases of child labor. The programs of fair trade cocoa industry have to ensure that parents earn enough money to allow their children to stop working and return to school.

  •      Bananas

      In Latin America, which produces most of the bananas in the world, workers exposed to chemicals without adequate protection. When some workers complained about this situation, attacked and kidnapped. Bananas of fair trade to ensure that workers receive equipment for their safety, adequate education, and allowed to create clubs and not kidnapped. Companies are also fair trade benefit small farms affected than compete with large plantations which are pushing prices downward.

  •      Coffee

      On coffee plantations (fences) of Latin America, the stories about exploitation is widespread: for-fraternal methods, inadequate salaries and working hours. The leaders of the clubs have received threats on their lives. Again companies fair trade to ensure decent conditions for their workers.