When you ask how many honest products Carrefour offers, you get one back: What do you mean by honest products? The supermarket chain does not see fair trade as a separate product line. For both the products from the southern and northern hemisphere, they must be developed with respect for the producer, planet and customer.
With Colruyt, Bio-Planet and Okay, the Colruyt Group is one of the strongholds of Belgium’s retail sector. Does this holding which focuses on growth and profit have any attention for sustainable trade? Yes, indeed, so it seems. In addition to its supply of fair trade products, the Colruyt Group launched ‘value chain projects’ a few years ago in an attempt to ‘sustainabilify’ the producer-to-consumer value chain.
After petrol, coffee is the world’s biggest export product. It is almost exclusively cultivated in developing countries. The coffee trade therefore has a huge impact on the working and living conditions of local coffee producers, their families and on nature, according to Beyers’website. Beyers is a coffee roaster which offers a broad certified coffee assortment, representing 40% of its sales.
This study, commissioned by the Trade for Development Centre (TDC) and realized by Dedicated between December 21, 2015 and January 29, 2016, attempted to draw up a statement of condition on the presence of sustainable products within the assortments of major Belgian supermarkets.
In 1965 Belgian and Peruvian ministers signed a first development cooperation agreement. Half a century later the Belgian development agency is still operating in the Andes country where the Trade for Development Centre supports five fair and sustainable trade projects. Reason enough to go and visit the cocoa farmers, physalis producers, loggers, textile workers and miners behind these projects.
Projects in Peru, Congo and Morocco highlight the fact that to turn fair and sustainable trade into a means of leverage in the fight against poverty and inequality reduction – which is the Trade for Development Centre’s view – two questions must be kept in mind when approving projects: who does the work when producing goods and who manages the profits once the project boosts revenue?
You have undoubtedly noticed them on supermarket shelves in the exotic fruit section: boxes of bright orange berries crowned by green-brown, papery sepals. Where do they come from and what is the story behind these ‘lanterns’? And where can we find organic and fair trade ones? We found answers to these questions in Colombia and Peru.
In regions where existing ecosystems suffer from human pressure, tourism can provide part of the solution.
Inspired by successful experiences elsewhere in the world, the Honeyguide Foundation, with the financial assistance of the Trade for Development Centre, supports the development of sustainable tourism in the north of Tanzania. The Maasai population is given an extra financial incentive to protect its natural environment.
Burundi, a small Central African country, is one of the poorest countries in the world. The coffee sector is a major economic player since it generates more than half of Burundi’s export revenues. It is also the main source of revenue for almost 750,000 families. The privatisation made coffee growers join forces in cooperatives and build their own washing stations.
The TDC supports the Consortium of Coffee Growers Cooperatives COCOCA and two of iets members to allow producers to obtain a larger share of the added value.
To make global food production more sustainable, more and more scientists advocate organic agriculture. Trade for Development Centre (TDC) grants financial support to some ten projects that have made this choice.
When you ask how many honest products Carrefour offers, you get one back: What do you mean by honest products? The supermarket chain does not see fair trade as a separate product line. For both the products from the southern and northern hemisphere, they must be developed with respect for the producer, planet and customer.
With Colruyt, Bio-Planet and Okay, the Colruyt Group is one of the strongholds of Belgium’s retail sector. Does this holding which focuses on growth and profit have any attention for sustainable trade? Yes, indeed, so it seems. In addition to its supply of fair trade products, the Colruyt Group launched ‘value chain projects’ a few years ago in an attempt to ‘sustainabilify’ the producer-to-consumer value chain.
After petrol, coffee is the world’s biggest export product. It is almost exclusively cultivated in developing countries. The coffee trade therefore has a huge impact on the working and living conditions of local coffee producers, their families and on nature, according to Beyers’website. Beyers is a coffee roaster which offers a broad certified coffee assortment, representing 40% of its sales.
This study, commissioned by the Trade for Development Centre (TDC) and realized by Dedicated between December 21, 2015 and January 29, 2016, attempted to draw up a statement of condition on the presence of sustainable products within the assortments of major Belgian supermarkets.
In 1965 Belgian and Peruvian ministers signed a first development cooperation agreement. Half a century later the Belgian development agency is still operating in the Andes country where the Trade for Development Centre supports five fair and sustainable trade projects. Reason enough to go and visit the cocoa farmers, physalis producers, loggers, textile workers and miners behind these projects.
Projects in Peru, Congo and Morocco highlight the fact that to turn fair and sustainable trade into a means of leverage in the fight against poverty and inequality reduction – which is the Trade for Development Centre’s view – two questions must be kept in mind when approving projects: who does the work when producing goods and who manages the profits once the project boosts revenue?
You have undoubtedly noticed them on supermarket shelves in the exotic fruit section: boxes of bright orange berries crowned by green-brown, papery sepals. Where do they come from and what is the story behind these ‘lanterns’? And where can we find organic and fair trade ones? We found answers to these questions in Colombia and Peru.
In regions where existing ecosystems suffer from human pressure, tourism can provide part of the solution.
Inspired by successful experiences elsewhere in the world, the Honeyguide Foundation, with the financial assistance of the Trade for Development Centre, supports the development of sustainable tourism in the north of Tanzania. The Maasai population is given an extra financial incentive to protect its natural environment.
Burundi, a small Central African country, is one of the poorest countries in the world. The coffee sector is a major economic player since it generates more than half of Burundi’s export revenues. It is also the main source of revenue for almost 750,000 families. The privatisation made coffee growers join forces in cooperatives and build their own washing stations.
The TDC supports the Consortium of Coffee Growers Cooperatives COCOCA and two of iets members to allow producers to obtain a larger share of the added value.
To make global food production more sustainable, more and more scientists advocate organic agriculture. Trade for Development Centre (TDC) grants financial support to some ten projects that have made this choice.
