Fairtrade wants to make trade fairer. This is primarily through the provision of fairer prices and wages and humane working conditions for farmers and workers in the most vulnerable communities. Fairtrade offers a system of certification and licensing with strict criteria and third-party auditing. Estonian producers can also be part of Fair Trade by using Fairtrade certified raw materials, gold or cotton in their products and applying for a Fair Trade license and/or certificate. You can also support simply by preferring certified coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate, etc. in the coffee corner of the company/organization.

Preference for Fairtrade products and/or the use of raw materials enables:

• reduce poverty in the most vulnerable communities • reduce the use of child labor and slave labor • to support the rights and decent living and working conditions of the people who grow many of our daily food and drink raw materials • save our environment in farming and production • reduce the use of dangerous chemicals in the food we consume

You can recognize a fair trade product by the Fairtrade label on the product package. Fairtrade focuses directly and effectively on supporting small farmers and producers in disadvantaged communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as the environment, so we do not compete with local labels.

The fair trade work in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is managed by the Finnish fair trade organization Fairtrade Finland, which is part of the Fairtrade International organization.

Contacts:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fteesti

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairtrade-the-baltic-states

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairtradebaltics/

Website: https://www.fairtrade.net/

E-mail: jana.jesmin@fairtrade.fi