Coco Loco's FAIR TRADE committment

From the very beginning the gallery was managed under strict FAIR TRADE principles providing support to the local community. All items on sale are bought directly from the artist paying a fair price for his work.

All business contacts are based on long-term contracts. We visit the often remote reservations of the tribes personally to assure the quality of the artwork and maintain a sustainable relationship.

Key Fair Trade Principles (www.holyland-handicraft.org)

Fair trade advocates generally support the following principles and practices in  trading relationships:

• Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers
  Fair trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system.
• Transparency and accountability
  Fair trade involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners.
• Capacity building
  Fair trade is a means to develop producers’ independence. Fair trade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organizations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets.
• Payment of a fair price
  A fair price in the regional or local context is one that has been agreed through dialogue and participation. It covers not only the costs of production but enables production which is socially just and environmentally sound. It provides fair pay to the producers and takes into account the principle of equal pay for equal work by women and men. Fairtraders ensure prompt payment to their partners and, whenever possible, help producers with access to pre-harvest or pre-production financing.
• Gender equity
  Fair trade means that women’s work is properly valued and rewarded. Women are always paid for their contribution to the production process and are empowered in their organizations.
• Working conditions
  Fair trade means a safe and healthy working environment for producers. The participation of children (if any) does not adversely affect their well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play and conforms to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the law and norms in the local context.
• Environment
  Fair trade actively encourages better environmental practices and the application of responsible methods of production.

The following list of Fairtrade Standards is taken from the website www.fairtrade.net and sets the minimum of standards for Coco Loco's volontary Fairtrade committment:

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