From fair trade coffee to fair fashion For many years the Fair Trade Towns campaign has shown that local authorities can play an important role in promoting fair and sustainable trade. In Belgium’s Flemish region no less than 198 municipalities have become Fair Trade Towns, Wallonia and Brussels have 41 ‘Communes du commerce équitable’. Since […]
What is fair trade? Fair trade is a type of trade that gives smallholders, especially in the South, the opportunity to develop in a sustainable way. One of the most important principles is that smallholders get a fair price for their product, but there is more to it than that. Fair trade objective, definition and principles […]
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Trade for Development Centre 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 […]
