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Marketing expertise key to value chain approach

October 20th 2017

Belgium’s governmental development cooperation (BTC) for agricultural projects increasingly uses value chain approaches. To start, a particular crop’s value chain – not only the production on the field but also the next stages – is analysed. After all, what’s the use of a high-quality and sustainable product if it cannot be sold? Where can farmers find potential customers and how should they communicate with them? In the south of Morocco a project in the saffron and dates value chains is in its third year. It is the first BTC project in which the Trade for Development Centre (TDC) has been involved from its formulation because of its marketing expertise with producer groups in the South. Midway this project we drew up a state of affairs.

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Fair and community-based tourism

March 19th 2017

We all know fair trade bananas, coffee, chocolate… but do you know about fair tourism? It is less known, but booming! The United Nations declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development recalling the potential of tourism to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Trade for Development presents presents 4 community-based tourism projects that it supports.

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Linking Ugandan farmers to organic and fair trade markets

December 28th 2016

United we stand, divided we fall. This motto defines what NOGAMU is trying to promote among farmers. To ensure that Ugandan farmers are able to sell their harvest at a fair price and grow their business, the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU) helps them to become organised into groups or cooperatives and to become more empowered. As a part of a cooperative, a farmer has the security to sell his harvest at a better price and can also learn to farm more sustainably.

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Ethics and aesthetics: fair cosmetics

October 27th 2016

Ever heard of fair cosmetics? Thanks to these personal care and beauty products, producers are able to improve their own, and their family’s, living conditions.
Products made by and for women, combining ethics and aesthetics. A number of brands that attracted our attention are listed below.

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Fair palm oil exists

October 27th 2016

While the palm oil industry is still investigating how to stop the destruction of human and environmental resources in South East Asia, fair alternatives already exist, such as palm oil projects in Ghana, Togo and Ecuador which have been certified and have obtained the Fair for Life label.

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Fair, sustainable and Peruvian

December 28th 2015

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.

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Gender in Trade for Development Centre projects

October 28th 2015

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?

Read more »

Marketing expertise key to value chain approach

October 20th 2017

Belgium’s governmental development cooperation (BTC) for agricultural projects increasingly uses value chain approaches. To start, a particular crop’s value chain – not only the production on the field but also the next stages – is analysed. After all, what’s the use of a high-quality and sustainable product if it cannot be sold? Where can farmers find potential customers and how should they communicate with them? In the south of Morocco a project in the saffron and dates value chains is in its third year. It is the first BTC project in which the Trade for Development Centre (TDC) has been involved from its formulation because of its marketing expertise with producer groups in the South. Midway this project we drew up a state of affairs.

Read more »

Fair and community-based tourism

March 19th 2017

We all know fair trade bananas, coffee, chocolate… but do you know about fair tourism? It is less known, but booming! The United Nations declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development recalling the potential of tourism to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Trade for Development presents presents 4 community-based tourism projects that it supports.

Read more »

Linking Ugandan farmers to organic and fair trade markets

December 28th 2016

United we stand, divided we fall. This motto defines what NOGAMU is trying to promote among farmers. To ensure that Ugandan farmers are able to sell their harvest at a fair price and grow their business, the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU) helps them to become organised into groups or cooperatives and to become more empowered. As a part of a cooperative, a farmer has the security to sell his harvest at a better price and can also learn to farm more sustainably.

Read more »

Ethics and aesthetics: fair cosmetics

October 27th 2016

Ever heard of fair cosmetics? Thanks to these personal care and beauty products, producers are able to improve their own, and their family’s, living conditions.
Products made by and for women, combining ethics and aesthetics. A number of brands that attracted our attention are listed below.

Read more »

Fair palm oil exists

October 27th 2016

While the palm oil industry is still investigating how to stop the destruction of human and environmental resources in South East Asia, fair alternatives already exist, such as palm oil projects in Ghana, Togo and Ecuador which have been certified and have obtained the Fair for Life label.

Read more »

Fair, sustainable and Peruvian

December 28th 2015

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.

Read more »

Gender in Trade for Development Centre projects

October 28th 2015

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?

Read more »

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