Fairtrade Foundation

05/06/2026

Climate change doesn’t feel “real”
until it starts affecting your own life.

Meanwhile, the people growing our food have been living with failed harvests, extreme heat, crop disease and unpredictable weather for years.

Farmers across the global majority have been sounding the alarm - protesting, speaking out, warning governments and businesses.
And still, they’re ignored.

The people who grow our coffee, tea, bananas and cocoa did the least to cause this crisis.
They should not be left to deal with it alone.

Doing nothing is a privilege.

We do have power to make a difference - in choosing to support farmers build resilience to climate change.

Choose Fairtrade.

29/05/2026

Together, we showed what hope in action really looks like.

Across the UK, almost 600 Fairtrade communities joined the nationwide movement - donating, supporting, and standing in solidarity.

We asked you to donate a Fairtrade item to your local food bank - and every Fairtrade item shared was a small act of kindness that added up to something much bigger.

Thank you to everyone who took part! In a time when things can feel tough, you showed that hope is louder than hate and that fairness, care, and collective action can create real change.

HOPE not hate A Million Acts of Hope Trussell

29/05/2026

27/05/2026

❗REMINDER: This weather in May is not normal.

And if it feels intense here, imagine what it’s like for the people growing and picking our food around the world.

For millions of farmers and workers, this isn’t a one-off heatwave. It’s the reality of a climate crisis they did the least to cause but are being hit by the hardest. We've already seen temperatures of over 50C in India this week.

And when extreme heat hits it means crop failure, lost income, and communities pushed further into poverty.

The climate crisis is a Human Rights issue, and right now it’s about making sure farmers have the resilience to deal with the inevitable climate shocks that hit them more and more frequently.

So while many of us enjoy the sunshine, it’s worth asking who is really paying the price for this heat?

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21/05/2026

In the time you can make a chai latte, you can make a real change.

One year ago, we launched our campaign, and said the tea industry had to change.

Because the bitter truth in tea is that just 1 in 5 farmers in Kenya earn enough to live on. In parts of India, tea workers still earn less than £3 a day. That's not fair.

And one year on the pressure is working.

☕️ Fairtrade tea sales grew by 35% - that’s 549 million more cups choosing a fairer deal.
☕️ Sainsbury's switched all own-brand tea to Fairtrade - delivering around £1 million a year back to producers
☕️ And 100,000 of you signed our petition and took this fight to government

But there’s still more to do to make the tea industry fair.

We call on all tea brands and retailers selling tea to join our movement for fairer tea - and together, we can

And we need everyone to be choosing Fairtrade tea and backing the farmers behind it.

19/05/2026

The “Great British" cuppa… really isn’t all that great.

In the UK, tea is sold as comfort, tradition and often national pride. But the truth behind it is very different - often based on exploitation, low pay and harsh conditions.

In reality, most of the tea we drink is grown in former British colonies by Black and Brown workers, many of them women, who still aren’t earning enough to cover life’s basics. In fact, just 1 in 5 tea growers in Kenya earn a living income.

That’s why Fairtrade launched last year - calling for UK law that makes companies responsible for what happens in their supply chains - especially when many of them continue to run campaigns hiding the truth of our cuppa hidden behind “British” branding.

18/05/2026

Fairtrade has been calling for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence - because transparency alone doesn’t protect people.

Right now, companies can comply while exploitation, unsafe conditions and environmental harm continue across supply chains.

We need rules that require businesses to prevent harm, not just report it - and businesses, investors and civil society are aligned.

This is about fairness for the people who grow our food and make our products.

It’s time to turn commitments into accountability.

In 2015, the UK Modern Slavery Act (MSA), was world leading. Yet all it actually required of companies was to report on steps taken to…

17/05/2026

The Times Rich List is out, and it is a stark reminder of how extreme wealth is growing and keeps concentrating at the top.

While fortunes run into the hundreds of billions, many of the people who grow our food and make our everyday products are struggling to make ends meet.

Across global supply chains, millions of farmers and workers earn less than a living income - in many sectors like tea and cocoa, some are paid so little they can’t reliably afford food, healthcare or education for their families.

The issues that so many here in the UK are facing - like choosing between heating and eating - are directly reflected in the lives of these people on the other side of the world.


This is the result of a system where wealth flows upwards, while the people doing the hardest work are undervalued and underpaid. Today, we should be asking harder questions about what, and who, this list really represents.

Because the people behind our food are what keep the economy running and their labour creates the wealth being celebrated today - does that seem fair?