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Welcome to the Fair Trade Association Christmas Shopping Guide
Connect with a world of contemporary handcrafted fashion, accessories, homewares and gifts, brought to you by passionate Australian business members of the Fair Trade Association.
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Our guide showcases a selection of endorsed Fair Traders of Australia, businesses whose practice we have verified against our Fair Trade Principles; in addition we share member businesses that support the Fair Trade Movement. Each featured business carries a wide range of beautiful seasonal gift ideas, sourced from talented artisans around the world.
To find out more about each listing, click on the image and you will be redirected to the business' website page.
Why Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is a system underpinned by 10 Principles that ensures that people and the planet are at the heart of trading practices. Fair Trade reduces poverty by specifically supporting disadvantaged artisans, workers and farmers in the Global South.
The 10 WFTO Fair Trade Principles are a holistic system of standards designed to ensure the rights of artisans and workers, promote gender equality and actively pursue climate justice through verification.
The 10 Principles of Fair Trade
Shop Local, Impact Global
Where to buy Fair Trade?
As you will learn in this guide, there are many ways to find fair trade products here in Australia. Online retailers featured here provide a wide variety of products that can be delivered conveniently around the country. For those who have the opportunity to shop instore, the beauty and quality of fair trade products becomes self evident when you can touch, see and choose them in person.
Like many businesses, fair trade shops and their producer partners overseas have struggled during the past three years. This Christmas season, why not seek out a shop close to you from our in-store retail directory at the back of this guide and meet the owner, hear the artisans' stories and choose the perfect gift from their range of colourful and eclectic products?
