{"id":54379,"date":"2024-03-25T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=54379"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:35:27","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<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"54379\" class=\"elementor elementor-54379\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19eedc4d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"19eedc4d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41bd3ec6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41bd3ec6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Supporting sustainable and ethical food production is a key part of FreshDirect\u2019s mission. We&#8217;ve taken this another step further by partnering with Equal Exchange to be the first east coast online retailer to sell their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/browse.jsp?pageType=browse&amp;id=ban&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=false&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_CustomerFavoritesFirst&amp;orderAsc=false&amp;activeTab=product&amp;brandFilterGroup=bd_equal_exchange\">organic, Fairtrade bananas<\/a>, which are sourced from three small farmer cooperatives in Ecuador and Peru.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54381 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/equal-exchange-banana-packing-ecuador.jpg\" alt=\"equal exchange fairtrade bananas packing ecuador\" width=\"1146\" height=\"1146\" \/><br \/>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> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/fairtrade-bananas-equal-exchange\/#more-54379\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading How Fairtrade Bananas Support Ethical Food Production\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We partner with Equal Exchange to ensure farmers are paid a fair price for their goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"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\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54379"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109971,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379\/revisions\/109971"}],"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}]}}