Pricing Fair Trade Products

The average consumer is often turned off from buying fair trade products upon learning that the prices are higher than commercial ones. The prices go higher still when the products are sold at specialty shops instead of regular stores. Just how is a product priced?

Fair Trade Certification

When a product obtains certification the minimum price is often set by certain standards. The minimum price of the product is the amount that a buyer, a wholesaler for example, has to pay the producers who made the product. Unlike other commercial items, the price of fair trade products is not fixed. Since it aims for producers to practice sustainable production the minimum is set at the cost that covers the production.

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What is Fairtrade

What is Fairtrade and Why Should You Care?

No doubt you’ve seen the Fairtrade label on goods and products in supermarkets, grocery stores, maybe even clothing and home goods stores, more than once or twice before. You may have even purchased one or two Fairtrade products in the past. But how much do you really know about the concept behind the label and what it really means to the both you, the consumer and the people who bring the product to you in the first place?

A Helping Hand, Not Charity

Some people mistakenly believe that Fairtrade is a charitable effort of some sort, the kind that disperses aid to the disadvantaged. That could not, however, be further from the truth. Fairtrade is all about business but also about securing fair pricing, better working conditions and greater independence for farmers and workers from all over the world.

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Who started Fair Trade?

The Fair Trade movement of started over sixty years ago with the founding of Ten Thousand Villages. The organization was the brainchild of Edna Ruth Byler, an American businesswoman who was struck by the poverty that she...

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Fair Trade Flip Flops

Thongs are worn by people all around the world. I love wearing flip-flops (aka thongs) and Feelgoodz have produced some thongs that are 100% biodegradable and Fair Trade. Unlike some other producers around the world who make...

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Connecting Technology and Fair Trade

Technology and fair trade at first glance seems to be on opposite poles. Presently it has been largely associated with handicrafts, agricultural products and food items. There is, however, an industry that is just ripe for inclusion in this movement, this is the field of electronics.

Can Technology and Fair Trade Happen?

Electronic items like microchips are by nature artificial materials, meaning they are made using a combination of other raw materials. People often relate electronics with gadgets like cellular phones, laptops and many others.

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A Look in the History of Fair Trade

Knowing the history of fair trade is interesting given that it has a noble goal of helping producers from developing countries achieve better trading conditions for their products. The notion of a fair trade for goods started...

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Fair Trade changes lives

When Paballo was eleven years old in Grade 5 at school, his mother became mentally ill and had to give up her work in a bookshop. As a result, Paballo became very dependent on his father. In his second year at high school when he was fifteen, he was devastated when his father died. As there was now no means of raising the fees required for his schooling, Paballo dropped out of school.

How Fair Trade changed Paballos’ life

Three years later, a past school principal of his paid the fees to enable him to go back to school.

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How are Fair Trade Standards Made?

Buying fair trade products is a good choice but selling them is not as easy since they are required to meet certain fair trade standards. Meeting such standards enables sellers to obtain what is known as a fair trade...

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Fairtrade Coffee and What it Really Means

The Story of Fair trade Coffee and What it Really Means

Although there are now many Fairtrade products available on the shelves of stores the movement began with what may still be the offering most familiar to consumers if you ask them about the initiative; fair trade coffee.

Global Coffee Facts

Legend has it that the fact that the beans from the coffee bean tree could be used to create a tasty and energizing beverage was first discovered by weary goat-herders in the Kaffa province of Ethiopia. Although that story is not formally documented the fact that 12th century Yemenites seeking a way to stay up all night to pray turned to coffee to do so is. And the rest, as they say, is history. By the 16th century, coffee was being widely consumed in Africa and the East and it had even made its way to Europe where it quickly became the fashionable choice of the wealthy.

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Advantages of Fair Trade Shoes

Supporting Fair Trade Manufacturers By purchasing fair trade shoes, you are supporting the original producers of the materials that was used to make the shoes. Unlike other shoes, fair trade shoes assist in the development of...

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Why Early Fair Trade Law Failed

For most people fair trade is a relatively new concept. In the U.S. however there was a time a thing such as fair trade law was enacted. The major difference of this fair trade law with what we know about it today is that it...

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How to be a Fair Trade Town

A fair trade town is a town that has made its commitment to becoming a supporter of fair trade. The idea however is not limited to towns but can also include cities, villages and even islands or countries. Garstang in Lancashire...

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Fair Trade Clothing Model Competition

The Face of a Fair Trade Model The hunt is on for the face of Annie Greenabelle’s Spring/Summer Fair Trade range is now on!  To enter, send two photographs of yourself to joy@anniegreenabelle.com or via post to Annie...

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What is Fair Trade Certification?

In order for a product to be considered as belonging by the fair trade definition, it has to have what is called a fair trade certification. If fair trade clothing and products have this certification then it tells consumers that the seller is committed to the concept of fairtrade. It also makes the consumers trust the product more and also increases the likelihood of the conscious consumer to purchase the items. There is no need therefore for consumers to have to do research regarding the product because they know that they can put trust in the act because of the Fair Trade Certification.

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Fair Trade is Better than Global Trade

The principles that fair trade movement is why fair trade is better than the current practice of global trade. Fair trade does not only ensure that producers from developing get a fighting chance in the market but it also levels...

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World Fair Trade Day

‘Fair Trade People’ is the theme for the 2014 World Fair Trade Day celebration. The theme has been chosen to celebrate the people of Fair Trade, meaning all those people involved in the production, marketing and the purchasers....

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Celebrate World Fair Trade Day

World Fair Trade Day was started as an initiative of the World Fair Trade Organization. Each year, it will be celebrated around May. Thousands of businesses and consumers, and even policy makers, will celebrate the event with...

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