Respondents’ perceptions of society: Compared to 2022 and 2020, all the issues assessed seem to be of slightly less concern, with rising energy and raw material prices clearly taking precedence over other issues such as pollution, health and personal well-being. Rising energy and raw material prices, purchasing power and health are the top three concerns […]
On the night of 6 December, after more than nine hours of negotiations, the European Union’s trilogue (Parliament, Commission and Council) reached a provisional agreement to ban imports of several commodities if they are produced from land deforested after December 2020. An initial list of six products was initially proposed by the Commission in […]
With its ‘Bite to Fight’ range of chocolates, Oxfam Fair Trade aims to reduce the gap that all too often still exists between cocoa farmers’ real income and a fair and decent income.
GEL Sud Benin, or Local Economy Office (LEO) South Benin, represented by its General Manager Geoffroy Mele, received support from two TDC coaches until the end of 2022. Isabelle Van Pachterbeke is one of these coaches. She is in charge of financial and organisational aspects. Let’s take a look back at a highly educational experience. […]
The two initiatives, Make Belgium a Fair Trade Country and Fair Trade Municipalities, aim to promote fair trade in Belgium, at both national and local levels. They have joined forces to work with the different regions of the country, and so Make Brussels-Capital a Fair Trade Region.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC) wants to strengthen advocacy for sustainable, inclusive production and consumption that respects decent work in various African countries. This is why it plans to support the organisation national ethical, sustainable, fair trade or organic farming days or weeks.
Call for Applications targeting MSMEs with a social purpose or producers’ organisations to benefit from a coaching in sustainability and decent work; a coaching in financial and business management; a coaching in marketing and sales management.
Call for Proposal in 2 phases targeting MSMEs with a social purpose or producers’ organisations for the implementation of a strategy and/or an action plan to become more sustainable and more respectful of decent income and decent work.
April 27th, Yeyasso, Fairtrade Belgium, Galler Chocolaterie and Enabel’s TDC organised a webinar on the living income gap in the cocoa sector. Measuring this gap between the real household incomes of producers and what is considered a decent income is really important. It can also be a tool to better define policies to support producers, by cooperatives of other stakeholders.
Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre coaches producer cooperatives and Business support organisations (BSO’s) in business management, finance and marketing. The TDC has also started to support cooperatives in calculating the living income gap in producers’ households.
