Problem

Farmers and farm workers in the developing world suffer from isolation from international markets, and from an imbalance of power compared with exploitative local middlemen. Fair Trade empowers democratically-organized farmers and workers with tools and resources to address their most pressing local social and economic development challenges.

The Gift

Fair Trade offers democratically organized farmers and workers in 50 developing countries a mechanism to overcome this power imbalance by becoming owners and operators of their own successful international enterprises.