Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Prices, Premium and Procedures for Fairtrade

A quick overview about Fairtrade in relations to Wine Grapes:
-There are 2 categories of organizations that WOU needs to define themselves:
a. Small Producers Organizations
b.Hired Labour
-There are 2 types of Wine grapes that Fairtrade will need to know:
a. Organic
b. Conventional

Certification Body: FLO-CERT
WOU needs to pay premium in order to start getting involved in Fairtrade.

Please see below for more detailed terms via the links:

Here's the Fairtrade Standards for Small Producers Organizations:

Some of the terms need to refer to the second link:
http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/02-09_Wine_Grapes_SPO_EN.pdf

http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/SOP_Public_Development_of_Fairtrade_Standards.pdf


Here's the Fairtrade Standards for Hired Labour:
http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/Wine_Grapes_HL_Feb09EN.pdf


The Certification body is called FLO-CERT:
http://www.flo-cert.net/flo-cert/main.php?lv=3&p=1&p3=6



Examples of Price for Fairtrade Wine grapes:
http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/051009_EN_Price_and_Premium_table.pdf


If we look at Wine grapes from Argentina, here's what WOU can take as a reference:

Product:Wine grapes
Quality:Conventional
Country:Argentina
Small Producers Organization/Hired Labour:SPO / HL
Price Level:Farm Gate
Unit:kg
Quantity:1
Currenty:EUR
Fairtrade minium price:0.25
Fairtrade Premium:0.05

1 comment:

  1. So there could be a project of 'certifying' WOU in fairtrade. What could be the benefits, tradeoffs, and implications of doing this? It sounds very interesting idea. Have you guys shared these insights with the rest of the groups? Do they know about this? Are these taken into account in formulating projects?

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