Ethical Coffee!
What is Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade coffee is about more than just a certification label; it’s a movement built to protect and empower the people behind every bean. At its core, Fair Trade ensures that coffee farmers receive a stable, minimum price for their crop, even when the global market drops. It also includes a Fair Trade Premium: additional funds that go directly back to farming communities for things like education, healthcare, and infrastructure.
The goal is to create a supply chain that prioritises fairness, sustainability, and human rights over profit. Fair Trade also promotes safe working conditions, gender equality, and environmental responsibility; so your daily cup supports more than just your caffeine needs. It’s about creating a world where farmers have more control over their future, and where coffee quality and ethics go hand in hand.
Why Fair Trade Coffee Matters
Behind every cup of coffee is a network of farmers, pickers, and families who depend on fair prices to survive; and thrive. The coffee industry has long struggled with imbalance: smallholder farmers, often in remote regions, face volatile pricing, rising costs, and limited market access. Many live below the poverty line, even while producing some of the world’s best beans.
Fair Trade helps shift the power back into the hands of producers. It guarantees minimum pricing to protect farmers from sudden market crashes and rewards quality and sustainability with additional premiums. This helps communities invest in long-term improvements; from building schools and clinics to implementing environmentally friendly farming practices.
Choosing Fair Trade isn’t just about ethical shopping. It’s a direct way to vote for dignity, equity, and transparency in the global coffee trade. And better conditions mean better coffee, grown with care, intention, and pride.
How We Support Fair Trade Coffee
At Brewno, we believe good coffee starts with good relationships; and those relationships are built on fairness and respect. While not all of our coffees carry official Fair Trade certification, many come from cooperatives and producers who follow the same principles: fair pricing, safe working conditions, and reinvestment into their communities.
We source through trusted importers who prioritise transparency and long-term partnerships with growers. We look for traceability, ethical supply chains, and coffees grown with care for people and planet. By choosing producers who are committed to these values; whether through Fair Trade, direct trade, or relationship-based sourcing; we ensure that the people behind the beans are supported every step of the way.
When you drink Brewno, you’re not just getting a great cup of coffee. You’re supporting a system that puts people first. That’s something we’re proud to roast for.
Fair Trade Facts
Fair Trade coffee supports hundreds of cooperatives across Latin America, Africa, and Asia; helping small-scale farmers gain access to better markets and training.
Fair Trade co-ops vote on how to use their premium money; it often goes to build schools, health clinics, clean water systems, or fund organic certification for the whole group.
The Fair Trade system promotes democracy, transparency, and gender equality at the farm level. Farmers in certified co-ops must be part of democratic decision-making and profit sharing.
There’s more Fair Trade coffee grown than the market currently buys. That means consumer demand really matters; every purchase helps shift more of the supply chain towards fairness.
Fair Trade coffee isn’t just ethical; it can be high-quality, too. Many Fair Trade producers score 84+ on the SCA scale, making them fully specialty-grade.