Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of marginalized producers and workers. Fair Trade organizations (backed by consumers) are engaged actively in supporting producers, raising awareness and in campaigning for changes in the rules and practice of conventional trade. Now that's fair.
Fair Trade aims to give disadvantaged small producers and workers more control over their own lives. It addresses the injustices of insufficient income for a decent living and insufficient market access by guaranteeing that producers receive fair terms of trade and fair prices or wages. Most importantly, Fair Trade offers small producers the power to negotiate and the consumer a powerful way to participate in livelihood enhancement of the producers through their everyday buying
FAIR TRADE PRINCIPLES
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Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Produce
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Transparency and Accountability
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Capacity Building
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Promoting Fair Trade
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Payment of a Fair Price
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Gender Equity
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Working Conditions
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Child Labour
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The Environment
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Trade Relations
THE ROLE OF IRFT IN FAIR TRADE
Plays a stewardship role in propagating the principles of Fair Trade.
Promotes the principles of fair trade to all stakeholders along the supply chain through Capacity Building and long-term process Training.
Will steer all efforts to mainstream Fair Trade in India and help further build partnerships of a wider fraternity in the larger interests of a unified, credible Fair Trade movement in India and beyond.
Develops Communication strategies to address different fora/ events/fraternity meets on Fair Trade, working in partnership with Fair Trade networks like FTFI, and its partners as a Group/Body, unified as Fair Trade change agents.
