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Setting our sights on the future

15 September 2017 by Darío Soto Abril, CEO of Fairtrade International

This year marks the 20^th anniversary of the creation of Fairtrade International. Over these two decades, Fairtrade has gone from being a small initiative to a global movement. In 2015 alone, $8.1 billion Fairtrade products were consumed, a 16% increase from 2014. These purchases benefited 1.6 million producers and workers across 75 countries.
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