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Fair Trade Products
In a world of choices, make yours
count
Only Fair Trade Certified products offer great gourmet flavor, plus the
promise that your purchase gives back to our global community and preserves
our environment. Choose Fair Trade Certified products—and taste
the difference.
Discover Fair Trade Certified
coffee:
- Whether you prefer a mild blend or dark roast, sourced from over 22 origins—almost every variety of gourmet coffee is available Fair Trade Certified
- Available in 20,000 retail locations
- Grown using traditional artisanal methods that maintain exceptional quality and preserve the environment
- Benefits 550,000 families worldwide, providing the means for basic education, healthcare and nutrition
Indulge in Fair Trade
Certified chocolate:
- Available in stores nationwide
- Grown under a canopy of indigenous plant life to preserve
biodiversity
- Prohibits forced labor and child labor abuses
- Fosters democracy in 20 expanding collectives worldwide
- Improves life for 42,000 cocoa farmers and their kids,
from schooling to improved nutrition
Enjoy a cup of Fair Trade Certified
tea:
- Includes a full range of top quality green, black, oolong, and white Camellia sinensis teas as well as chamomile, hibiscus, mint and rooibos herbal teas.
- Guarantees safer working conditions and fair wages for 200,000 tea estate workers and small tea farmers worldwide.
- Funds construction of new housing facilities, schools, and healthcare resources including nutrition and clean water programs, family planning and childhood vaccinations.
.Sweeten your life with Fair Trade Certified vanilla:
- Use Fair Trade Certified whole vanilla bean or extract as an ingredient in baked goods, beverages, candies, frozen desserts, body care and perfumes.
- Ensures that small-scale farmers receive a fair price for the labor intensive vanilla crops in the recent wake of tumultuous price fluctuations.
- Fair Trade prices and premiums fund social development projects and enable small-scale vanilla farmers afford training in sustainable agricultural techniques and organic certification.
Change the world one grain of Fair Trade Certified rice at a time:
- Exotic varieties of aromatic FT rice include Thai jasmine, red, coral and purple rice, and Indian brown and white basmati rice.
- Guarantees that rice producers reap benefits from their harvest, by paying a premium which covers the cost of living and cost of production.
- Fair Trade Funds help farmers to pay off debts, send their children to school, improve healthcare resources and convert to organic production.
Enjoy Fair Trade Certified fresh fruit:
- Organic and conventional varieties available.
- Invests in social improvements including schools, health centers and women's groups.
- Ensures safe working conditions and the right to organize in workers' unions.
- Protects virgin forests, biodiversity and water sources; prohibits the use of harmful pesticides.
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