Why FAIRTRADE >>What the Producers Say

"Social premium means a lot to us and I like very much the way of protecting the environment."
Martha Andrew , St Lucia

"If you stay in this area you will see that producers don't eat their bananas if they are not FAIRTRADE producers. I like my bananas. I like FAIRTRADE bananas because they use less pesticides."
Selwyn Walters, St Vincent

"Some thing needs to build producers confidence. When you find you hardly have money to pay your workers, or pay yourself - that's why so many people leave agriculture. I see FAIRTRADE as a way to help producers. That's why I stick with it.."
Ray Baptiste, St Vincent.

'If we didn't have FAIRTRADE sales, most of the farmers would be cutting down their trees. 100% of our crop is sold to the FAIRTRADE market. The current price of coffee in the conventional market doesn't cover the cost of producing coffee.'
Guillermo Vargas Leiton, Coffee Farmer and Co-op Manager, Costa Rica

'You can be helping someone all your life but nothing changes. Tell more people that we are producers who are capable of change. It is a worldwide movement which aims to reduce the injustice of the imbalance between rich and poor. The coffee is produced by capable people and we would like consumers to recognise the value of what we are doing.'
Pedro Antonio Haslam, CECOCAFEN R.L., Nicaragua