Fairtrade Foundation
Your Guide to Fairtrade Fortnight: Products, Food and More
Fairtrade Fortnight 2025 will take place 22 September - 5 October.
Oxfam have been pioneering fair trade products since the 1960’s. Products that support the people who produce them to earn a decent living.
Fair trade facts: what you need to know about Fairtrade Fortnight
When is Fairtrade Fortnight 2025?
Fairtrade Fortnight will run from 22 September - 5 October 2025.
What is Fairtrade Fortnight?
During Fairtrade Fortnight thousands of companies, groups and individuals in the UK come together to celebrate and stand with the people who grow our food.
The current financial crisis is taking a heavy toll on smallholder farmers and workers. The costs of fuel, fertiliser and food rising above affordable levels means that producers can’t earn enough to cover their costs or fund climate adaption work.
Fairtrade Fortnight asks shoppers to back the farmers behind some of our favourite products, to ensure they are paid fairly throughout this climate and cost of living crisis. The campaign endeavours to inform the public on the struggles surrounding today’s farmers and educate on the benefit of shopping fair trade.
What is Fairtrade?
Fairtrade is about better prices, safe working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers.
Fairtrade means that workers’ rights are protected. And it helps create safe working conditions and promote fairer pay.
Products with the FAIRTRADE Mark are ethically produced. Choosing Fairtrade means standing with farmers for fairness and equality. It means farmers creating change, from investing in climate-friendly farming techniques to supporting women in leadership.
By choosing Fairtrade now, you’re taking a stand with farmers and workers worldwide for fairer incomes, so they can protect the future of our food.
Times have changed but our commitment to Fairtrade hasn’t. Check out some of our favourite Fairtrade products on the Oxfam Online Shop.
For the chocolate lover: Fairtrade chocolate
Divine
This Divine 12 Bar Tasting Set is the perfect gift for any chocolate lover. The box opens up to reveal 12 mini chocolate bars. Alongside a tasting guide. And the Divine farmer story. It is perfect if you love chocolate and want to explore all the different flavours!
About Divine
Divine is on a mission to end exploitation in the chocolate industry and is the only Fairtrade and B-Corp certified chocolate company co-owned by farmers. This means that their farmers secure fairer prices, decent working conditions, and sustainable livelihoods.
Did you know?
Together, Oxfam and Divine support women in cocoa farming so they can develop the skills and confidence to grow better cocoa, build better communities and thrive in business.
Tony's Chocolonely
Classic milk chocolate with a Pecan Caramel Crunch makes this Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Pecan Caramel an indulgent treat. An added pecan crunch brings the perfect balance.
About Tony's Chocolonely
Tony’s works in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Their aim is to help make all chocolate 100% slave-free. In Ghana and the Côte d’Ivoire, 1.56 million children work under illegal conditions and 30,000 people are victims of forced labour. The unevenly sized chunks of Tony’s 180g bars are a reminder that the profits in the chocolate industry are unfairly divided.
For the barista: Fairtrade coffee products
CaféDirect
Grown in the fertile Machu Picchu region, this Arabica coffee is rich and smooth. With dark chocolate overtones, Café Direct Machu Picchu coffee is made from perfectly ripe Arabica coffee beans. The unique microclimate in the region results in a coffee with light acidity and a full body.
About CaféDirect
CaféDirect's aim is to help smallholder growers and all of their coffee, tea, and cocoa is 100% Fairtrade certified. CaféDirect not only pay the Fairtrade Premium for their crops but also reinvest their profits via Producers Direct, an independent NGO partner who preserve the vital work of small-scale farmers.
For the chef: Fairtrade food products
Zaytoun
Pressed from freshly picked olives, Zaytoun Extra Virgin Olive Oil has an award-winning, warm peppery flavour. This Fairtrade oil is sourced from family-owned groves nestled on sun-drenched Palestinian hills.
About Zaytoun
Founded in 2004, Zaytoun is an award-winning social enterprise. 100% of Zaytoun’s profits are reinvested. Helping support Palestinian farmers through fair trade. Zaytoun won a Social Enterprise Award for International Impact in 2015. And Fairtrade International’s Award for 'Global Trader of the Year' in 2016. An award for traders helping build sustainable supply chains and recognising the needs of smallholder farmers.
How does choosing Fairtrade support farmers facing the climate crisis now?
Fairtrade is about social justice.
By consumers taking the simple action of choosing Fairtrade, they are protecting the future of our food by supporting farmers on the frontline of the climate crisis and facing rising costs.
80 percent of the world’s food comes from 500 million family farms, where people are increasingly facing the worst effects of the climate crisis. Furthermore, these small-scale family farmers which are disproportionately affected by climate change lack access to the resources they need to adapt to a changing climate (source: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation)
Poverty, caused in part by decades of chronic underpayment, is a root cause of inability to adapt to climate change.
Poverty prevents smallholder farmers from developing their businesses. This fuels a vicious cycle of low productivity and declining incomes. The less farmers earn, the harder it is to secure good harvests. All this leaves them financially unable to tackle climate change damage.
Choosing Fairtrade means choosing to prioritise farmers' livelihoods. With collective strength. Through co-ops and their bargaining power, the protection of the Fairtrade Minimum Price and Fairtrade Premium. More money means more climate resilience into the future.