Ekopolis - Fair Trade partner

     For 18 years has the Ekopolis Foundation supported the ideas of sustainable development. On April 2009 our foundation decided to connect to the challenge "We are looking for fair partners" and obtain FAIR TRADE certifikate.

     Fair trade certification is a product certification system designed to allow people to identify products that meet agreed environmental, labour and developmental standards. Using Fair Trade products and promoting this ideas we would like to connect to Fair Trade partners in Slovakia.

     The philosophy and principles of fair trade as a form of equitable trade are very agreeable for us, because their entity is the sustainable development, reverence to the nature and the ambition to the worthy conditions for farmers in the underdeveloped countries.

    Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a "fair price" as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate and flowers.
     Fair trade's strategic intent is to work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move towards economic self-sufficiency and stability. It also aims to allow them to become greater stakeholders in their own organizations as well as play a wider role, and achieve greater equity, in international trade.