Fairtrade International

Fairtrade International has updated its Cocoa Standard with a reinforced focus on human rights, the fight against deforestation, traceability, and living income. Confirming the development, the social justice organisation explained the…
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Fairtrade Africa has reviewed its impact across the continent through the use of Fairtrade premiums and other programmatic and project interventions. These programmatic and project interventions as well as the Fairtrade premium were…
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Farmforce in partnership with Fairtrade International has trained 400 members from 25 cooperatives in Cote d’Ivoire on how to use software, developed by Farmforce, to trace deforestation. According to Chief Executive Officer of…
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Social justice and sustainability label Fairtrade International has announced the appointment of Sandra Uwera as its new Global CEO. Uwera steps into the role following the departure of Dr. Nyagoy Nyong'o, who served as Interim Global…
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Mars Incorporated has announced a new effort to improve the livelihoods of 14,000 smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia by the next eight years. According to the chocolate maker of more than 100 years, two…
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A new Fairtrade study has revealed that the intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious risk to global agricultural production and directly threaten the livelihoods of millions of Fairtrade farmers around the world. The study…
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Fairtrade, a global label for social justice and sustainability, and the New York-based B Lab are set to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible business…
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Six cocoa cooperatives in Ivory Coast have succeeded in creating their own data system through a partnership with agricultural technology firms and Fairtrade. The data system pilot project in the West African nation is aimed at…
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On July 6, 2020 we carried an article by our UK-based contributor, Kwame Asamoah Kwarteng, titled "Is Fairtrade Fair To Cocoa Farmers", which has generated quite a debate on and off our platform. Fairtrade West African Network has taken…
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