{"id":2968,"date":"2020-05-15T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/campagnes\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:55:51","slug":"commodities-in-fair-food","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fairfood.org\/en\/commodities-in-fair-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fixing our food system<\/h1>\n

Making all of our food fair… Where do you start? On this page you can find the sectors in which Fairfood is already active<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n \"Citrus\"\n <\/a>\n

Citrus<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \"Cocoa\"\n <\/a>\n

Cocoa<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Tomato<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Cane sugar<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Pineapple<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Shrimp<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 30 million cups<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

All Dutch coffee drinkers combined drink over 30 million cups of coffee per day. Seems like a successful industry, right? For some, yes, but for the farmers not so much; they earn less than 1,60 euros per day.<\/p>\n\n

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\n Dangerous work for little money<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

On average, smallholder coconut farmers have 4 hectares of land. With that they earn as little as 170 euro per year if they have no other source of income.<\/p>\n\n

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\n No escape from the poverty cycle<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

There’s no escaping the poverty cycle in the Moroccan tomato sector. Pickers earn around 5,60 euro a day. In order to earn a living wage they would have to earn three times as much.<\/p>\n\n

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\n We have work to do<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

A lot of issues persist in the shrimp industry. We mapped out the issues so we can start working towards change.<\/p>\n\n

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\n Suffering from hunger in a thriving industry<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

Even though the pineapple industry brings a lot of prosperity to the Philippines, it\u2019s not the workers on the fields who are profiting. They have little to no work security and receive hunger wages.<\/p>\n\n

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\n The problem with sugar<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

In the last decade, the emergence of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-Traditional Causes (CKDnT) has killed about 20.000 workers in the sugarcane industry in Central America. The illness is caused by dehydration, heat stress and exposure to agrochemicals.<\/p>\n\n

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\n Making little profit in a thriving industry<\/span>\n <\/h1>\n

Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices on earth. Still, many of the people growing it make less than 1 euro a day and suffer extreme income insecurity.<\/p>\n\n

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