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About 1.5 million children work on cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana where two-thirds of the world’s cocoa is produced, according to study by NORC at the University of Chicago. Fairtrade understands that poverty is one of the root causes of child labour, and while we cannot solve this endemic problem we are taking steps to make a difference, including supporting initiatives that strengthen children’s rights and end harmful practices such as our Child Labour and Forced Labour Prevention and Remediation Programme. The programme, launched in 2023, is beginning…

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The Fairtrade Foundation has recently published its 30th Anniversary Report, celebrating decades of transformative impact in ensuring that fair prices are paid to producers and farmers in lower income countries Read the report: Growing Our Movement For Change   The report also issues a call to action for businesses, campaigners and whichever party or parties forms the next UK government, following the general election, to address extreme climate challenges and promote fair trade practices. Continuing commitments from businesses have played a crucial role in helping farmers to invest Premium funds…

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Fairtrade International has released the fourth edition of its West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP) Monitoring Report that continued to show a significant growth in training in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Sierra Leone. In 2023, a total of 48,876 participants, of which 11,812 were female, 24 percent, participated in training. This represents a 22 percent increase when compared to data gathered in 2022. The increase reflects the success of a “cascading” approach in which Fairtrade Africa trains a set of cooperative managers and farmers, who then bring the information back to…

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Continuing to steadily grow and positively impact the lives of more than two million farmers and workers, the Fairtrade Premium neared €223 million in 2022, a 10 percent increase from the year earlier, according to a monitoring report released today by Fairtrade International. The global certification’s fifteenth edition of the report showed that Fairtrade Premium received by producer organisations for Fairtrade’s top seven products – banana, cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, sugar and tea – totalled about €210 million, while the Premium for the minor products topped €12 million. The Fairtrade…

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Without fair pay and a proper say in changes that affect them, producers will still be left behind. To mark World Fair Trade Day, Fairtrade is launching a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the lack of power and influence in global supply chains that keeps farmers and workers in low-income countries poor. The Make Your Mark campaign[1] running across 10 markets, highlights the power imbalance that leaves millions of farmers and workers behind our staple food products underpaid and exploited despite playing a critical role in global food security.…

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