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With your support, we are making a difference! Together, with the CFTN and our campus partners, Chartwells is working toward our common goal of building a just and sustainable food system. Take a journey with us dineoncampus.ca 6 | FAIR TRADE MAGAZINE • CANADA’S VOICE FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Why Fair Trade? The fair trade movement exists because terms of trade are often unfair. This puts producers all over the world in disadvantaged positions. How does it work? Based on partnerships between producers and consumers, fair trade is an alternative approach to conventional trade. When farmers sell their products through fair trade, they receive a minimum price, improved terms, and a social premium that brings them the opportunity to improve their lives and plan for their future. For us Fair trade offers consumers a powerful way to reduce poverty through everyday purchases. Fair trade also helps us better understand where our products come from. Standards There are distinct sets of standards that ensure basic labour rights are respected for small-scale farmers, hired workers, and independent artisans. Benefits In the fair trade system businesses pay a minimum price and an additional premium, which is used to help fund education, healthcare, infrastructure, and business-improvement projects in the producers’ communities. The producers form committees to decide how to spend the premium. The bigger picture Fair trade supports the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, addresses climate change through improved agricultural techniques, and encourages business practices that reduce poverty for producers in the global south. Assurance Third-party certifiers and membership-based organizations ensure that standards are met, often using a seal or a stamp of approval on product packaging. The Canadian Fair Trade Network currently recognizes the following certifiers and/or membership-based organizations: Fairtrade International, the Small Producers’ Symbol, the Fair Trade Federation, and the World Fair Trade Organization. CFTN.CA | 7
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