At Underground Coffee Company we believe it’s super important to support Fair Trade. Although world consumption is growing, and the value of the coffee trade makes it the world’s second most valuable commodity, many of the world’s 25 million coffee growers face immense hardship.
Fairtrade guarantees a minimum fair and stable price for produce, decent working conditions, environmentally sustainable farming methods, and a premium for investment in local community development. By supporting Fairtrade you can help to address the injustice of conventional trade, and ensure that farmers in the developing world are getter a better deal for their products.
The Fairtrade movement has been one of the most powerful responses to the plight of producers in developing countries who are being excluded from the benefits of international trade. It gives consumers an opportunity to use their consumer power to tilt the balance in favour of the poor.
The most effective, guaranteed way to help growers, is to buy certified Fair Trade coffee. Underground Coffee Company source their coffee beans through Trade Aid, New Zealand's foremost fair trader for over 30 years.
Trade Aid has an excellent reputation within the international Fair Trade community. Their focus is, and always has been, firmly on the welfare of their coffee suppliers ensuring growers receive a better deal.
- A guaranteed minimum price which provides them and their families with enough money to meet their basic needs - including adequate living conditions, and basic education and health requirements.
- An expectation of regular future orders they can rely on to help maintain this basic standard of living. Partial prepayments, when necessary, to help cover their costs of production.
- By choosing Underground Coffee Company and supporting Fair Trade we can all make a difference to the lives of others, every day… just one cup at a time.
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