Fairtrade Foundation
The Fairtrade Foundation gains key grants including support for Ghana cocoa farmers
The Fairtrade Foundation has won two out of eight grants launched today by the UK Government, including an agricultural support scheme backed by Mondelēz International in Ghana assisting cocoa producers in developing countries during the coronavirus pandemic.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Processing, Sustainability
Peruvian cocoa producers benefit from Fairtrade coronavirus fund
A Fairtrade fund established by the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers (Clac) is reportedly proving effective at assisting a number of cocoa producing operations, including in Peru.
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Fairtrade Foundation assists cocoa farmers operating amid coronavirus
Fairtrade International has confirmed a plan to increase flexibility in its standards to enable producer organisations to help protect farmers working within the cocoa sector amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Fairtrade Fortnight under way campaigning for women cocoa farmers
The UK’s Fairtrade Foundation has started its Fairtrade Fortnight with its nationwide ‘She Deserves’ campaign putting a spotlight on hidden inequality experienced by the women and girls behind the major global chocolate industry.
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Fairtrade Foundation’s LJ Loftus becomes latest World Confectionery Conference keynote speaker
The World Confectionery Conference unveils its latest keynote speaker, LJ Loftus, Head of Supply Chain and Programme Management, Fairtrade Foundation.
Fairtrade Fortnight aims for living wage for Ivory Coast farmers
Fairtrade Fortnight began in the UK this week, and its commendable work has an especially potent message this year. Its core aim for 2019 centres on calling on assistance for women cocoa farmers in West Africa, specifically Ivory Coast, the vast majority of whom are working in below poverty line conditions. Though this may not […]
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Waitrose confirms commitment to 100% own brand Fairtrade confectionery
UK supermarket retailer Waitrose and Partners has confirmed that it is committed to making all cocoa in its own brand confectionery 100% Fairtrade by the end of 2019.
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Fairtrade Foundation calls on government to support its key annual goals
The Fairtrade Foundation’s is delivering a new campaign calling on the UK Government and companies to ensure cocoa farmers earn living incomes by 2030 in line with the UN’s Global Goals to end poverty.
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