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Fair Trade is an ever growing international movement with one main aim: to be sure that producers in poor countries get a fair deal and are not exploited for their labour. The Fairtrade movement believes producers in poorer countries deserve a fair price for their goods. A price that covers the cost of production and enough to guarantees a living income.

The main essence is to offer long-term security by offering contracts which provide real security; and to allow the producers themselves to learn the skills and knowledge they need to develop their businesses and increase sales.

Fair Trade offers consumers an alternative - the opportunity to purchase products from the producers themselves. In doing so, consumers can be assured that they are helping the redistribution of wealth by addressing the poverty-stricken millions of small-scale farmers and producers who are unfairly competing against big business.

Fairtrade Labelling was developed by Max Havelaar in the late 1980's when he launched the first Fairtrade consumer guarantee label in 1986 on coffee sourced from Mexico.

The Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) Board include four producer representatives, two commercial partners and six national Fairtrade Initiative representatives. The marketing and promotion of Fairtrade products remain the responsibility of the individual national initiatives.

In September 2004 there were 422 Fairtrade certified producer groups (including many umbrella bodies) in 49 producer countries selling to hundreds of Fairtrade registered importers, licensees and retailers in 19 countries. [source: Fairtrade Organisation]

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