Your Guide to Fairtrade Fortnight: Products, Food and More

When is Fairtrade Fortnight 2026?

Fairtrade Fortnight will run from Monday 21st September - Sunday 4th October 2026..

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.

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.

Tony's Chocolonely

Soft on the inside and chunky as ever, we introduce the brand NEW milk chocolate truffle filled bar. Filled with an irresistible creamy ganache, this latest Tony's creation is not one to miss!

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, during the 2018/19 season,1.56 million children worked under illegal conditions in the cocoa supply chain. The unevenly sized chunks of Tony’s 180g bars are a reminder that the profits in the chocolate industry are unfairly divided.

CaféDirect

With dark chocolate notes, Café Direct's Machu Picchu Coffee is made from perfectly ripe Arabica coffee beans.

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.

Clipper

A wonderfully rich, complex blend of full-bodied teas, grown by some of the world's finest Fairtrade and organic tea gardens. Clipper Everyday Fairtrade Teabags make a smooth and mighty cup.

About Clipper

Clipper were Fairtrade pioneers, becoming the UK's first Fairtrade tea company in 1994 – they even helped to write the Fairtrade Standards. Today they are the world's largest buyer of Fairtrade tea.

Zaytoun

One-of-a-kind crunchy Zaytoun Raw Almonds named after the ancient village of Om al-Fahem, where they originate from. Picked and shelled by hand, they are harvested in late summer and sun-dried so they are full of the season’s sweetness.

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.

A note on Zaytoun Olive Oil:

Zaytoun's organic and Fairtrade certified olive oil is temporarily unavailable. In the meantime, they are offering the same high-quality oil from their usual farmer partners, just without certification. This is due to the organic certifying body withdrawing from Palestine, citing security concerns, without a proper handover. A new certifier is now in place, but the transition has required a lengthy induction process and so we are continuing to sell the uncertified version of the olive oil.

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.