In 2009 Peru exported 460 thousand quintals of coffee with Fair Trade label by a value exceeding $ 73 million, which was established For the sixth consecutive year as the largest exporter by this system, reported the National Board Café (JNC).
Also, coffee is the main Peruvian export product sold through the market of solidarity, as well as banana, mango, cocoa, tea and sugarcane, among other products.
95 percent of coffee was placed by FLO (Fairtrade Labelling Organizations) comes from cooperatives and associations, bringing together small farmers from all regions of the country's coffee, and 80 percent of them belong to the JNC.
The Fairtrade label demands respect for certain requirements such as having high standards quality, respecting the payment of minimum wages to labor and to protect nature and the environment, an effort that is recognized with a special price for small producers.
The first Peruvian coffee exports through this system were made in 1986 by the Cooperative of Florida, and since then have significantly increased the organizations that export grain market aroma through solidarity.
In Peru there are 39 organizations that involve smallholder 32.000 exporting various products to the most demanding international markets, mainly in the U.S. and Europe through Fair Trade.
precisely the main representatives of these organizations met recently with officials of FLO, the world body based in Bonn (Germany), to discuss new trends in this system can be applied to small producers.
participants also included representatives of producer organizations in Central America, as well as coffee export cocoa, bananas and other fruits by solidarity market.
In the event, held in Lima on 29 and 30 July, FLO experts stressed the importance of production systems have been upgraded and are sustainable, with emphasis on improving agricultural and environmental practices in the fields of culture, modes of production of producers and job security.
Organized into working groups, participants analyzed according to their own realities, the application of the criteria for environmental management, pest management, water and soil, garbage and waste and genetically modified organisms (GMOs ), as prerequisites, they said, to follow the parameters of fair trade. (Andina)
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