page_title: Fairtrade certification
section_title: Certification costs and returns
hierarchical_section_title: Fairtrade certification / Certification costs and returns
caption_attribution_description: English: Shared Earth on Woodhouse Lane in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The shop is part of the Merrion Centre complex. Shared Earth is a 'fair trade' shop. Taken from the opposite side of Woodhouse Lane on the evening of Thursday the 27th of May 2010.
context_page_description: The Fairtrade certification initiative was created to form a new method for economic trade. This method takes an ethical standpoint, and considers the producers first.
  In the 1960s and 1970s, several early attempts were made to market fair trade products. In 1988, Dutch Non-profit organization Stichting Max Havelaar launched the first Fairtrade Certification Mark, initially applied to coffee originating from the UCIRI cooperative in Mexico, and later expanded to other products. Fairtrade sales prior to labeling initiatives were contained to relatively small world shops, operated by alternative trading organizations such as Oxfam and Traidcraft. Fairtrade International was established in 1997.
  Fairtrade International started with the coffee industry, but now covers a range of products such as cocoa, fruit, cotton, flowers, tea and others. The established buyers of these products make up a niche market, which makes marketing for Fairtrade a challenge.
  As of 2016, 1,411 producer organizations in 73 developing countries were Fairtrade certified, representing over 1.66 million farmers and workers.
context_section_description: Certified organizations such as cooperatives have to pay FLO-CERT a fee to become certified and a further annual fee for audit and continued certification The first year certification fee per unit sold as "Fairtrade certified"  varies but has been over 6c/lb with an annual fee of 3c/lb to 3.4c/lb for coffee up to 2006 in some countries, at a time when the "Fairtrade premium" was 5c to 10c/lb.
  Fairtrade farmers also have to meet a large range of criteria on production: there are limits on using child labour, pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified products and so on.
caption: Shared Earth, a Fairtrade shop in Leeds, West Yorkshire
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