{"id":7563,"date":"2022-11-18T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:26:00","slug":"the-cost-of-fairtrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/7563\/the-cost-of-fairtrade\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of Fairtrade"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fairtrade products are often associated with higher prices. Why is that?<\/em><\/p>\n Fairtrade is an association who helps farmers by giving them an appropiate salary. Currently there are 1.8million farmers who are working with them and therefore benefit by building stronger communities and having more control over their future. It results in a domino system. This looks like this: By getting more money, farmers have more possibilities to improve not only their life but also the ones from their family and living community. They can afford sustainable and ecology friendly ways of farming and can invest in long term.<\/p>\n Fairtrade enable all these things by choosing to make less profit. While normal retail companies get 80% of the sales, Fairtrade only earns 10-20% of the selling price. To still make profit and to pay workers a fair salary, the price of Fairtrade products is a bit higher.<\/p>\n But Oxfam thinks that Fairtrade products should still be affordable:<\/p>\n “In a normal shop you can buy a chocolate bar for one euro, here in an Oxfam shop you also can get a chocolate bar fore one euro. The difference is: Here it’s Fairtrade, in the shop it’s not”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n