Fairtrade America

Fairtrade America The most recognized ethical label in the 🌍. For the people, for the planet 🌿.
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We empower companies and consumers, farmers and workers to make trade fair and sustainable. Products carrying the FAIRTRADE Label meet the rigorous social, economic and environmental criteria in the Fairtrade Standards developed by Fairtrade International (FLO).

If you're a parent, grandparent, or have any children in your life (so, pretty much everyone), you understand that givin...
06/12/2026

If you're a parent, grandparent, or have any children in your life (so, pretty much everyone), you understand that giving kids the opportunity to thrive is the most important thing you can do. Farmers around the world want the same for their kids, and paying hard-working parents fairly for their labor is the best way to keep kids where they belong - in school, on playgrounds, being kids. On this World Day Against Child Labor, we encourage you to check out our link in bio to read about Fairtrade's efforts to make sure kids can go to school.

Our thoughts are with the farmers, workers, and communities in the Philippines affected by the recent magnitude 7.8 eart...
06/10/2026

Our thoughts are with the farmers, workers, and communities in the Philippines affected by the recent magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Mindanao, impacting areas including Sarangani, South Cotabato, General Santos City, Digos, Santa Cruz, and parts of the Davao Region.

At present, four Fairtrade coconut and banana producer organizations in Mindanao have been affected. Our regional team is working to maintain contact with the affected members, understand their situation, and gather information on the impacts faced by their communities.

As assessments continue, we stand in solidarity with the affected producers and recognize the resilience and determination of farming communities as they work to safeguard their livelihoods and navigate through this challenging time.

06/05/2026

"If companies truly want to save the planet, they must start by paying the people who protect it."

The reality is you cannot have healthy soil without healthy farms, and you cannot have healthy farms without investing in the people who run them.

On this World Environment Day, the food and beverage industry has a choice. It can continue investing in flashy trends, ignoring the people who grow our food, resulting in fleeting impact. Or it can confront the uncomfortable truth that real environmental resilience starts with shifting money and power toward farmers.

06/05/2026

"Instead of fighting nature, we should use it, be friends with it." This World Environment Day, meet Fabiana - a Fairtrade farmer who left city life for farm life 22 years ago. Now, she's working to turn her family coffee farm in rural Brazil toward regenerative agriculture so that she can work alongside nature, not fight against it, because she knows that healthy soil means less water, less waste, and a farm that lasts.

05/28/2026

The Earth without art, without nature, without bees, and without beautiful cultures... it's just "eh."

Whether planting seeds or loving on their children, this Mother's Day, we’re celebrating that mothers are the cornerston...
05/10/2026

Whether planting seeds or loving on their children, this Mother's Day, we’re celebrating that mothers are the cornerstones of our future. A future made brighter by…

Dora, a Ghanaian cocoa farmer and mother of three who built a 170-pupil school from the ground up so that every working parent in her community had a place to send their children.

Ana María, a single mother in El Salvador who turned years of fieldwork into a platform for change, championing women's participation and leadership in her cooperative, and setting an example her children can look up to.

Saritha, a tea plucker in South India giving her children the education she never had and building the foundation for them to thrive.

Juliana, a 4th-generation coffee farmer in Peru keeping her family's legacy alive by building sustainable farming practices and foundations for the next generation to carry forward.

This Mother's Day, we honor the women who brighten up the world!

05/09/2026

World Fair Trade Day is a moment to remember and recognize the farmers and artisans at the beginning of many of the products we know and love. Next time you’re looking for a gift, a new bag of coffee, or a little act of beauty, make sure you . Fair wages for all because trade is personal.

05/06/2026

Still reeling (get it? 😅) from how much fun we had at during . What an absolutely incredible time. If you need dancing bananas at your next event, let us know!

05/06/2026

✨ Giveaway ✨
This World Fair Trade Day, May 9th, is a day to celebrate the farmers and artisans at the beginning of the products we know and love. Stop by The World Crafted on King to say hello, learn more about trade justice, and if you’re in the first 30, receive a FREE tote bag and Divine Chocolate USA bar.

Happy (almost) World Fair Trade Day!

Fairtrade exists because workers demanded better.Cane sugar plantations relied on exploitative labor practices for centu...
05/01/2026

Fairtrade exists because workers demanded better.

Cane sugar plantations relied on exploitative labor practices for centuries, forcing sugar workers from the tropical fields of the Caribbean to the Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946 to fight for fair wages, the right to organize, and basic dignity. That same year, Edna Ruth Byler began laying the groundwork for what would become the Fairtrade label in 1989, promoting products that were free from exploitation.

Their legacy lives on in our work:

Roughly 40% of the world's sugar is produced by smallholder farmers. Fairtrade works with tens of thousands of these farmers globally to support better farming practices and fairer pay.
The Better Labor Practices Program provides direct protections against human rights violations In 2025, in collaboration with Fairtrade Italia, fairtradeafrica_marketplace, and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, we launched a Zero Hunger project, supporting food security, clean water access, and income diversification for sugar farming communities in Malawi. This International Workers' Day, we honor the workers and organizers who came before us by continuing their fight in building a world where all farmers and workers receive the pay and conditions they deserve.

Learn more: https://www.fairtrade.net/us-en/news/International_Workers_Day.html

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