Buy Fair Trade, organic cocoa and chocolate now
Giving a 25% premium to growers
adds only 4% to the cost of each bar from one fair-trade chocolate company
Fair Trade Certified chocolate can be found at health food stores and specialty markets across the country. To find a fair trade retailer near you, visit the TransfairUSA website. If you can't find the brand you want locally, an excellent one-stop online source is the Global Exchange Store.
The following companies all sell fair trade chocolate products. Most (though not all) are also organic:
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Chocolate.com | A global chocolate marketplace offering unique fair trade products - perfect for a gift or your own enjoyment. |
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Coco-Zen | Deliciously decadent chocolate truffles handmade from only organic and Fair Trade certified chocolate. Discover Coco-Zen and experience oneness with chocolate. |
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Dagoba Organic Chocolate | Chocolate bars, baking chips, chocolate syrup, hot chocolate, and baking cocoa (non-alkali) |
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Dean's Beans | Organic hot cocoa and baking cocoa, also kosher |
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Divine Chocolate | Chocolate bars, cocoa |
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Earth's Sweet Pleasures | Luscious, creamy and rich dark chocolate fudge, certified organic and fair-trade. Your purchase helps support cacao farmers in Central and South America." |
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Equal Exchange | Organic hot cocoa, baking cocoa (with alkali) and fair trade, gourmet chocolate bars |
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Ithaca Fine Chocolates | Organic chocolate "Art Bars." |
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Kate's Caring Gifts | Earth Friendly Gift Sets featuring Organic and Fair Trade Chocolate |
| La Siembra Co-Operative | La Siembra, a worker owned Co-operative, was the first to import Fair Trade certified cocoa into North America. Their Cocoa Camino products are sold only in Canada. | |
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Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates | Chips, bars and baking supplies all Fair Trade and organic |
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Sjaak's Organic Chocolates | All organic and fair trade chocolate bars, gift boxes, holiday items, vegan selections |
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Theo Chocolate | Organic, fair trade premium chocolate |
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Yachana Gourmet | Chocolate, tropical fruit spreads and other food products made from organically grown raw materials from the Amazon rainforest region in Ecuador |
Why it’s important
Most of our chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast region of West Africa, where cocoa production is an enormous part of the economy. In Ghana, 40 percent of the country’s export revenues come from the sale of cocoa. Unfortunately, very little of the profit goes to the farmers who grow the cocoa beans. Cocoa farmers receive about a penny for a candy bar selling for 60 cents.
In fact, the difficulty in making a living at cocoa farming has spawned an increase in child and even slave labor drawn from poor neighboring countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo. Children and other workers are forced to work long days picking and processing cocoa beans (it takes 400 of these pods to make just one pound of chocolate). Very few of the children have the opportunity to attend school.
Fair Trade cocoa offers farmers an opportunity to make a real living. The Fair Trade Certified production criteria guarantee a minimum price and insure that no child or forced labor is used.
Learn more
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If you would like for your company to be listed in the Conscious Consumer Marketplace, please email Carolyn Danckaert or call 301.891.3683 ext. 125.