{"id":54379,"date":"2024-03-25T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=54379"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:38:30","slug":"fairtrade-bananas-equal-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/fairtrade-bananas-equal-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fairtrade Bananas Support Ethical Food Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Supporting sustainable and ethical food production is a key part of FreshDirect\u2019s mission. We’ve taken this another step further by partnering with Equal Exchange to be the first east coast online retailer to sell their organic, Fairtrade bananas<\/a>, which are sourced from three small farmer cooperatives in Ecuador and Peru.<\/p>

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This relationship is a new milestone in our efforts to work with producers that are working to make a difference and are committed to impacting society and the environment in a positive way. Equal Exchange is a pioneer in this regard: they have been a leader in the Fairtrade movement for decades, helping small-scale producers gain a foothold in competitive marketplaces.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> (more…)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporting sustainable and ethical food production is a key part of FreshDirect\u2019s mission. We’ve taken this another step further by partnering with Equal Exchange to be the first east coast online retailer to sell their organic, Fairtrade bananas, which are sourced from three small farmer cooperatives in Ecuador and Peru. This relationship is a new milestone in our efforts to work with producers that are working to make a difference and are committed to impacting society and the environment in a positive way. Equal Exchange is a pioneer in this regard: they have been a leader in the Fairtrade movement for decades, helping small-scale producers gain a foothold in competitive marketplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61027,"featured_media":73426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3297,2945,3260],"tags":[2998,3298,3259],"class_list":["post-54379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-produce","category-producer-stories","category-sustainability","tag-bananas","tag-equal-exchange","tag-fairtrade"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54379"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101712,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379\/revisions\/101712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}