Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.
Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.
We believe that fair and sustainable trade are a way to decrease poverty. It gives smallholders in the South the opportunity to develop in a sustainable way. We work around three main themes: producer support, sharing information and raising awareness.
Here you will find our most recent publications in order of appearance. The last published will be in the front.
The European Commission has proposed a new regulation amending the one establishing a common market organisation of agricultural products (CMO), with the aim to strengthen farmers’ position in the agri-food supply chain.
At the end of November, the fourth annual National Fair Trade Days (JNCE) took place, an initiative of the Burkina Faso fair trade platform.
This initiative, which was funded by Enabel’s TDC, was desperately needed to tackle the many challenges in the sector and to find ways out of the ongoing crisis.
With a history stretching back more than 250 years, Beyers Koffie, Belgium’s largest coffee roaster, is determined to move with the times. At the end of 2025, the company will be one of the first in the world to inaugurate a 100% electric industrial roasting line.
Xavier Declercq, the artisan chocolatier who founded Xocolate, is delighting gourmets in the capital who want to treat themselves more responsibly, with his 100% organic,
For the past twenty years, the Ethiquable brand has been offering a wide range of food products, including chocolate and coffee, from fair trade and organic farming, but following its own ethics, which pushes it to go beyond the already high standards of these sectors.
The EUDR saga is going to take a break. On December 4, 2024, the European Parliament and the Council reached a political agreement on the Commission’s proposal to grant a 12-month additional phasing-in period.
