Fairtrade

Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

By requiring companies to pay sustainable prices (which must never fall lower than the market price), the Fairtrade movement addresses the injustices of conventional trade, which traditionally discriminates against the poorest, weakest producers. It enables them to improve their position and have more control over their lives.

Dublin Food Co-op is a long-standing supporter of Fairtrade principles and Fairtrade produce.

We sell a particularly extensive range of coffee and all of it carries the Fairtrade mark.

Types of Fairtrade products stocked by Dublin Food Co-op are listed below...

Nuts, seeds and dried fruit

• organic Brazil nuts
• organic cashew nuts
• organic apricot kernels
• organic cashew butter
• organic dried banana
• organic dried pineapple
• organic dried mango
• organic dried tropical fruits
• organic cashew nuts
• organic apricot kernels

Grains and pulses

• organic quinoa
• organic wholewheat pasta - fusilli, penne
• organic rice pasta - fusilli, penne
• organic aduki beans

Sweet stuff

• organic cereal and fruit bars
• organic chocolate
• organic cookies
• organic sugar
• organic honey
• organic golden syrup
• organic marmalade, strawberry jam
• organic mango chutney

Drinks

• organic teas
• organic coffee
• organic herb and fruit teas
• organic cocoa powder
• organic hot chocolate
• organic orange juice
• organic tropical juice

In addition to our support for produce carrying the Fairtrade mark, the rules of Dublin Food Co-op commit us to:

"discriminate positively in favour of countries which uphold basic human rights, when importing wholefoods".