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According to its third annual report, the Fairtrade Child Labour and Forced Labour Prevention and Remediation Programme has funded 12 West African cocoa cooperatives to conduct their own projects, reaching 5,000 children. What works in preventing child labour? Livelihood support to reduce poverty, and enable parents to hire temporary farm workers if needed. School infrastructure and support for children to attend, such as school supplies and lunch. Easing transportation to school. Engaging the community to identify challenges and design solutions. These were some of the findings of a significant 2021…

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When supply chains face new transparency requirements, the instinct is often to build another platform or introduce another digital solution. Producer organisations are then often asked to provide the same data multiple times, while having limited visibility over where it goes or how it creates value for them. But what if the key to trusted traceability lies not in new systems, but in connecting existing ones more effectively? This question was at the heart of Fairtrade International’s Sustainable Traceability for Empowered Producers project, funded by the ISEAL Innovations Fund, supported…

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Unfair trade was firmly in the firing line this International Coffee Day as Fairtrade hosted The Fairtrade Comedy Roast, an evening of laughter, conversation and caffeine-fuelled campaigning in London to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. Hosted by comedian Cody Dahler, the event featured an exceptional line-up of comedians: Kemah Bob, Kyrah Gray, Daniel Foxx, Raul Kohli and Aurie Styla, and gathered creators, campaigners, artists and coffee lovers to take aim at the absurdities of a global trading system that too often rewards everyone except the people who grow our coffee. Between laughs,…

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Commenting on University of Reading student Maha Khan’s chocolate bar, made with 100% UK ingredients, Marina El-Hasni, Fairtrade Foundation Senior Sustainable Sourcing Manager for Cocoa says the story underlines a bigger challenge:  “This British-made chocolate bar is a striking reminder that the future of much-loved foods like chocolate cannot be taken for granted. As Maha found out, chocolate is a really hard thing to make — and that is precisely why we cannot take the smallholder farmers overseas who grow cocoa for granted. Cocoa is highly sensitive to changes in…

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Fairtrade International has updated its Human Rights Remediation Policy, marking an important milestone in strengthening how human rights violations are addressed across Fairtrade supply chains. The updated policy was approved during Fairtrade’s General Assembly week held earlier this year.  The Human Rights Remediation policy (formally known as the Act to Protect Policy) outlines Fairtrade’s approach to enabling effective remediation when human rights and environmental health and safety violations occur, while reinforcing the organisation’s long-standing commitment to respecting internationally recognised human rights. It builds on Fairtrade’s broader human rights commitment and…

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