Sentence examples for trade premium from inspiring English sources

"Each year we invest the Fair Trade premium in grants for the children of COMUCAP members.

Direct-trade coffee companies, on the other hand, see ecologically sound agriculture and prices above even the Fair Trade premium both as sound business practices and as a route to better-tasting coffee.

Colin Hines Author, Progressive Protectionism (forthcoming) The notion expressed by your correspondents (Letters, 17 May) that sweatshop workers could be helped by a voluntary fair trade premium from western consumers is ill-advised.

They used the fair trade premium to build a school.

Mavuno pays farmers a Fair Trade premium in addition to a fair wage.

French Letter Condoms is the first condom company in the world to pay the Fair Trade premium for latex rubber.

But in Costa Rica, CoopeTarrazú, a coffee-growing co-operative, diverts some of its fair trade premiums to education programs.

Through certification organisations such as Fair Trade USA, farmers have adopted sustainable farming methods, eliminated the use of pesticides and fair trade premiums mean they can now afford to educate their children beyond elementary school.

Fair Trade producers are democratically organized, and they vote together to determine how best to use their additional income (Fair Trade Premiums) to address their most pressing needs.

Fair Trade Premiums have allowed cocoa growing communities to take these pressing matters into their own hands by constructing new school buildings and/or teacher housing.

"Altogether, we expect that the farmers in the Dominican Republic from whom we buy our cocoa are going to receive over $6 million in Fair Trade premiums over the next ten years," Butler said.