Designer – Isaac Takyi

Information Point on Fair Trade

IntroductionFair trade is about?• better prices •decent working conditions •local sustainability,•fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world

Mainly helping producers in less developed countries get good prices for raw materials. You can help this cause by buying fair trade products locally.This information point will help you learn more and where to buy those products.

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Facts and Figures

Different type of products from the same country

Profiles of Two Producers from different countries with benefits to their communites

Details of local sources of fair trade products

Advert for fair trade event

Designer – Isaac Takyi

Facts and Figures

In the UK, sales of Fairtrade products in 2012 reached £1.5 billion – an 18 per cent increase on the previous year

78 per cent of consumers recognise the FAIRTRADE Mark

One in every three bananas sold in the UK is Fairtrade

40 per cent of bagged sugar sold in the UK is Fairtrade certified

Just over 26 per cent of all roast and ground retail coffee in the UK is Fairtrade certified

Fairtrade products are now sold in more than 120 countries

The FAIRTRADE Mark is the most widely-recognised ethical label globally

Designer – Isaac Takyi

Different type of products from one country

Profiles of two producers from different countries and their communities benefit

Dalbir Singh - India Joyce Chibouro - MalawiHe grows rice in India

He now sells to a fair trade company called Agrocel who give him a fair price , interest free credit and advice

Before he sold to a middle man and he did’nt get fair prices and had to pay interest on loans

Benefits- He has money for medicine and education for his family.

Joyce is a member of Kasinthula Cane Growers Ltd in Malawi, which supplies Traidcraft with sugar.

Its sugar became Fairtrade certified in 2003 and they have received significant fair trade orders.

Her and her family will have electricity for the first time thanks to the fair trade programme

The Fairtrade premium is helping farmers to install boreholes in their villages, which have relied on contaminated water supplies from the crocodile-infested Shire River. It has also enabled farmers to prepare for recent food shortages and continue to feed their families.

Designer – Isaac Takyi

Details of local sources of fair trade productsPlace Product Pictures Location

TescoFairtrade Fruits with Alphonso Mango Smoothie

1 Glover Drive Upper Edmonton London Greater London N18 3HF England

Asda Kit Kat 4 Finger Fair Trade

1 West Mall Edmonton N9 0AL

Sainsbury’s Sainsbury's Loose Fairtrade Bananas

28-48 Northumberland ParkTottenhamN17 0TX

Designer – Isaac Takyi

Fair trade advert