UK government invests £12 million in Fairtrade

In UK, customers can choose from more than 4,500 Fairtrade products. A research of 25,000 households showed that they prefer to spend more on a Fairtrade product than on any other. This led to an increase of purchasing Fairtrade products by 5.5% in the last twelve months.

Now UK Government decided to invest £12 million in order to help Fairtrade to expand and achieve its’ following goals:

• 100% increase of the farmers involved in the Fairtrade system.
• Help farmers in lowest income countries to access the Faitrade markets.
• Give money back to the producers in order to invest in their own community projects.
• Three-fold increase of the sales of Fairtrade products globally.

Reference: www.fairtrade.org.uk