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Do you Know the Source of your cup of coffee?
Check out the map below to find Fairtrade coffee in your area! Use the filter options to locate cafés and restaurants that serve Fairtrade coffee, and offer Fairtrade beans to take home.
80% of the world’s coffee is grown by small holder farmers, many of whom struggle to earn a reliable living.
Know the Source is a small-roaster program run by Fairtrade Canada that highlights cafés and restaurants offering Fairtrade certified coffee so Canadians can choose to support coffee farmers.
By choosing Fairtrade coffee you’re supporting more than 750,000 coffee farmers to thrive in an unstable market by earning a decent income, protecting their local environment, and investing in their farms and communities.
Use the map below to find Fairtrade coffee in your area
Put Your Business on the Map!
Canadians want to know the coffee they buy is sourced sustainably and ethically.
Become a Know the Source Program Partner and highlight the social, economic and environmental impact of your Fairtrade offering.
As a Know the Source partner, you get access to a digital toolkit of posters, social media assets, and other resources to help you promote your Fairtrade certified coffee.
At the age of 18, Olga left Honduras and her son to work in the US to get ahead. 8 years later, she returned to Honduras and joined the coffee cooperative COAQUIL.
"Fairtrade makes it possible to survive with coffee...they dedicate time to be with us, all the producers, to get us ahead." - Olga Alvarado, coffee farmer with COAQUIL, Honduras.
UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL COFFEE INDUSTRY
While the global coffee industry has grown to generate more than $200 billion per year, the average farmer’s income has not changed, or has even declined over the past 20 years!
Small-scale farmers are among the most marginalized by the global trade system. At Fairtrade, they are at the heart of everything we do. As a certification system that is 50% governed by producers, we are building a model of trade that ensures better prices, decent working conditions, no child labour, sound environmental practices, and strong business relationships.
Fairtrade is the only global sustainability certification that guarantees a Minimum Price for coffee, which acts as a safety net for farmers against price volatility. Cooperatives also earn the Fairtrade Premium, an additional sum of money that goes into a communal fund that members democratically choose how to use, whether this is education or health care for their children, improving their business, or building vital infrastructure such as roads and bridges for their community.
Learn more about Fairtrade and our work with coffee farmers: fairtrade.ca/coffee