Fairtrade Town
Fair Trade City is a certificate issued by a recognized Fairtrade certification body (eg "Fair Trade Foundation " in the UK, " TransFair Canada" in Canada, " TransFair - Association for the promotion of fair trade in the" Third world "eV", Cologne) is awarded and is committed to promoting fair trade certified goods in the context of fair trade.
Furthermore, these organizations also awarded certificates for Fair Trade Village, Fair Trade Zone, Fairtrade Borough, Fairtrade Iceland, Fair Trade Country, Fairtrade University and Fairtrade School.
History
The Fair Trade Town campaign was launched in Garstang, Lancashire in 2001 under the initiative of Bruce Crowther, a local Oxfam supporters, and the Garstang Oxfam Group to life. This initiative to promote Fair Trade certified goods were successful: within a few months of sales Fairtrade certified goods has been increased significantly. In addition, the city Garstang built during the campaign business with Fairtrade cocoa farming communities in New Koforidua (Ghana) on.
Due to the public interest in the actions, the Fairtrade Foundation set a goal to attract more cities for fair trade, and created a guide to the status of " Fair Trade Town". Between 2001 and 2006 a total of 209 British cities of Fair Trade status was awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation. In October 2009, an additional 448 UK towns and cities have been awarded 312 worldwide with the Fair Trade status. The campaign Fairtrade Towns is supported in Germany by TransFair and brings together different stakeholders from the commercial, government and civil society.
Criteria
Several Fairtrade labeling initiatives jointly established formal guidelines for certification. In order to obtain recognition as a Fair Trade City, a city must meet five criteria:
- The council passes a resolution in which he agreed to support fair trade, and to offer himself fair-trade tea and fair trade coffee at its meetings and in its offices and canteens.
- Etc. A certain number of shops, cafes, catering establishments must be easily accessible to offer for sale each at least two fair trade products; while the minimum number depends on participating companies of the size of the respective city.
- Created set up a steering group created the information about fair trade and organized their distribution and ecological and social standards for the procurement of materials and products from so-called " developing countries "
- Fair Trade support actions of the population, eg schools
- Several media reports about fair trade activities in the press of the city
The title " Fairtrade Town" is assigned when the first recognition for 2 years, then the requirements will be tightened. The Cologne club TransFair has the title since 2009 in a total of 120 " cities " in Germany awarded (as of October 20, 2012 ), including of Hamburg, Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. As cities and mere communities and municipalities are referred to in this context.
Similar shapes
In Austria there is not the form that is limited to cities, but the participation as FAIRTRADE community or as FAIRTRADE region. The state of November 2012, 77 municipalities and three municipal districts of Vienna members.