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Product Reviews / Main Nibbles / CoffeeThe Best Organic & Fair Trade CoffeeFair-Trade Certification
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Fair TradeThe Fair Trade movement helps to limit exploitation and ensures that farmers are paid a fair price for their crops. A fairly young movement, Coffee (and other commodities, including cacao) certified as Fair Trade must comply with a number of economic, social and environmental conditions. The middleman, who under the traditional model paid little for the beans and sold them at high profit, is eliminated. Under Fair Trade:
According to a recent estimate, Fair Trade coffee farmers are earning an annual income of $2,000, as opposed to the $500 they would otherwise have earned. More than 80% of Fair Trade coffee sold in the United States is also Certified Organic. The increased income Fair Trade creates allows cooperatives to re-invest in their farms, making them more ecologically sound and increasing coffee quality. Read more about Fair Trade in Stephanie Zonis’s article, Grounds For Confusion, Grounds For Change: The Complex World Of Organic Coffee.
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begun in 1997, twenty nations—17 European countries plus the United States, Canada and Japan—formed Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO). (The list is now up to 23 countries total.) Each nation has its own Fair Trade association; in the United States, the association is called TransFair USA, and it issues the seal at the right for products it certifies (the European Union has its own seal, as do Japan and Canada).