world Fair Trade Vancouver

Fair Trade Vancouver is committed to establishing partnerships and collaborative relationships with like- minded groups and organization committed to justice, sustainability, and human rights locally, nationally and worldwide. Goal is not only to make and improve on our relations with like-minded groups, but also to give confidence organizations to adopt and support Fair Trade Practices.

We welcome partnerships with

Non-profit groups that focus on sustainability and global development

Churches and other faith groups

Schools and student organization

Unions

Business development associations

We hope to use our partnerships to in public support Fair Trade, practice Fair Trade purchase, publicly reward partners for Fair Trade practices, give confidence conversion to Fair Trade products and create a national and global group for sharing resources.

World Fair Trade Partners

African Canada Accountability Coalition

Amnesty International

BCCIC

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility

Canadian Crossroads International

Co Development Canada

Education Generation

Engineers without Borders Canada

Ethical Deal

Free the Children

Global Agents

Haiku Media

Kairos

Kid sport

Latincouver

Oxfam Canada

Projecting Change

Sawa World

Fair-trade Certification Programmed

The aim of the Fair for Life Social & FairTrade Programme is to make sure fair and up relations between producers and their cooperative or constricting companies, between employees and their employer, between vendor and buyers the world market as at the same time ensuring performance of standards.

Social liability Certification confirms that workers enjoy good working setting and that producer groups have well working, accountable internal structure. The Fair for Life programmed builds on widely known baseline standards such as the conventions of ILO, SA 8500 and the social criteria of IFOAM.

Social & Fair-trade Certification includes all social standards, but focus as well on trade relations. Fair-trade means long-term and trustful collaboration between partners, transparent price setting, open consultation and prices that allow for social improvement of the concerned communities. Though the Fair for Life Social Fair Trade program does not limit fair-trade to developing countries and marginalized producers, fair-trade plainly aims at improvement of the social condition of those groups who are most poor in the individual local setting.

World wide Fair Trade Products

International

Every year the sales of Fair Trade products grow close to 32% and in 2005 were worth over 600 million US. In the case of coffee and tea, sales grow almost 55% per year in sure countries. In 2002, 16 500 tons of Fair Trade Coffee was purchase by consumers in 18 countries Fair trade coffee is presently produced in 24 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia The 167 FLO links in Latin America and Caribbean are placed in 15countries and collectively export over 85% of the world’s Fair Trade coffee

Africa

Africa’s export come from places such as South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, these exports are valued at 25 million dollars US among the years of 2004 and 2006 Africa speedily expanded their number of FLO certified manufacturer groups, rising from 77 to 172; nearly half of which live in in Kenya, following closely following are Tanzania and South Africa. The FLO products Africa is known for are tea, fruits, flowers and wine.

Latin America

Latin America is known for produce the majority of certified organic coffee. Study in the early 2000s show that the profits, education and healthiness of coffee producers involved with Fair Trade in Latin America were better, versus producers who were not participate. Nicaragua, Peru and Guatemala, having the leading population of coffee producers, make use of some of the mainly substantial land for coffee production in Latin America and do so by attractive part in Fair Trade.

Bali, Indonesia

Bali, an Indonesian island with a strong clothing manufacturing sector does not yet have a fair trade charter in place.

Economic development with IFTA

The nations joining the International Fair Trade Agreement have experience important economic improvement and growth over time not including the costs to workers' rights usually listed as necessary for growth. According to data gather by the Erikson typical Tendency and change Examination firm in Gald ago, nearly half of all IFTA member states are rank in the top 20% of the fastest growing economy in the Nation States Universe.

The chart under is based on their data and it indicate the percentage of IFTA link in each percentile block of universal rankings for fastest economic growth.Also, long-term data gathered by the Not Bored! Economists and Accountants united in Free Soviets have shown a reliable trend of economic growth and development.

This development is mostly striking when compared to an implicit baseline reading of ant capitalist nations While not every nation that is a member of IFTA counts itself as ant capitalist, the majority do, so the comparison is meaningful. The charts reproduced below are from the most recent Not Bored! Report on IFTA economic development.

Free Trade Agreements

Free Trade Agreements have proved to be one of the top ways to open up alien markets to U.S. exporters. Trade Agreements decrease barriers to U.S. exports, and protect U.S. benefit and improve the rule of law in the FTA partner country.

The reduction of trade barrier and the making of a more stable and visible trading and investment surroundings make it easier and cheaper for U.S. companies to export their products and services to trading partner markets. Forty-one percent of U.S. goods export went to FTA partner country in 2010, with exports to those countries mounting at a faster rate than export to the rest of the world from 2009 to 2010, 22% vs. 19%.

The U S has 12 FTAs in force with 17 countries. In adding, the U S has negotiated FTAs with Korea, Panama and Colombia, but these agreements have not yet entered into force. The United States is also in the progression of negotiate a regional FTA, the Trans-Pacific company, with Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

U.S. FTA Partner Countries 

Australia

Bahrain

Chile

DR-CAFTA: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic,

Israel

Jordan

Morocco

NAFTA: Canada & Mexico

Oman

Peru

Singapore

Fair Trade Symposium

The success of the first three Fair Trade International Symposiums seized in Montreal (2002 & 2006) and Montpelier (2008), a 4th symposium will be seized at Liverpool anticipation Business School on 2 - 4 April 2012. For this 4th edition, the symposium, which gather academic & practitioners, will host the last conference of the EU-funded.

The question which will be explored during the 4th Fair Trade International Symposium is the following: How can Fair Trade concretely attach producers and customers, as well as other stakeholders, along fair and sustainable supply chains?

The Montpelier symposium explored, Fair Trade has well-known an exceptional growth and mainstreaming over the last decade, translate into dramatic increases in sale and public awareness. Still, many questions remain for both practitioners and academics about the possible of Fair Trade to continue growing, whilst at the same time; achieve its aims of transforming globalization.

Fair Trade Artisan Products

Information on the Artisan Groups:

Vietnam: This group of artisans in a group contributes to the development and sustainability of a school for handicapped and orphaned children in Vietnam while caring the traditional artisan work of culture. The school opened in 1994 with a present enrollment of 120 deaf children and 150 handicapped children. The most important source of profits for the school is from the commissions of the artisan work.

India: This group is set up to decrease the forced relocation of individuals and families to a bigger city center by creating sustainable jobs in villages. This products imported from Himjoli are created from the beautiful work of the local craftspeople of Kumaon. Access to these local hand-crafted products will help keep the beautiful and customary hand-work that has been developed and perfect over generation.

L.I.B. International in Fair Trade:

Commitment to supporting entrepreneurs of the world focuses on creating financially stable markets for deprived grass root entrepreneurs and artisans. We work to reach this by fostering relationships with artisans and importing goods for sale in Canada during various sharing channels under fair and ethical trade practices. Our fair trade program is base on the principles that trade must have a conscience of equally buyer and seller to provide a larger justice to people in world labour markets following values and principles:

Excellence and environmentally produced products

Neutralization of human rights related to working conditions.

Gender equality and child labour

Creation of jobs for disadvantaged public

Stimulates and invests in the improvement of social conditions in a community

Connects the world through affirmative trade

Maltesers set go to Fairtrade in 2012

Mars Chocolate and Fairtrade International today announced an conformity to introduce the 1st Fairtrade label Mars creation — Maltesers

The move, which will come into view in stores in 2012 in the UK and Ireland, will add in excess of US $1 million in yearly Fairtrade Premium funds for cocoa farmers to supply in their farms, business organizations and communities.

Maltesers are the 3rd biggest confectionery brand in the UK, and its switch will stand for more than a 10% increase in total UK Fairtrade sales. (See Note 3 in Fairtrade organization part below).

Harriet Lamb, supervisory director of the Fairtrade Foundation said: This is brilliant news for cocoa farmers. It income that from next year, every Maltesers ball we have will deliver a little bit of extra magic, behind the farmers who grew the cocoa to invest in a brighter future.