Fairfood International

Fairfood International is a non-profit campaign and lobby organisation, which encourages the food and beverage industry to increase the level of sustainability of its products. In this way, Fairfood contributes to the fight against hunger and poverty across the globe.

What does Fairfood International strive for?

The production and trade of food and beverage products consumed on a daily basis entail many unfair aspects. Fairfood is committed to improvement of working conditions across the globe, putting an end to environmentally damaging practices and making trade sustainable.

What exactly does Fairfood International do?

Fairfood lobbies food and beverage companies to encourage them to introduce production and trade practices with an increased level of sustainability. In order to support this lobby, Fairfood places sustainability high on the agenda. Fairfood involves the general public in its efforts to negotiate increased level of sustainability of products in the food industry. In addition, Fairfood informs consumers, offering practical tools for grocery shopping awareness. Fairfood actively participates in public debate, as well as campaigning internationally.

What practical solutions does Fairfood suggest?

Fairfood constitutes a bridge between food and beverage companies on the one hand, and the range of solutions available for an increasing level of sustainability on the other. This may occur either by linking them to labels and other sustainable solutions, or by using other successful sustainable initiatives as examples. The online Food Guide provides consumers with an opportunity to make relatively sustainable decisions in supermarkets. Moreover, Fairfood maintains an (online) platform enabling anyone to voice their opinions, thus promoting increased levels of food sustainability.

Rid the world of hunger!

Fairfood is needed badly. Every day, 25,000 people die from hunger related causes. That is one person every 3.5 seconds, from which every Six seconds it is a child. In addition, 1.02 billion people are undernourished. 75 million of them became so in 2007. In 2008, still another 40 million more people became undernourished, in part due to an increase in food prices1. And yet, ironically, there is enough food in the world for everyone. Fairfood regards unsustainable trade policies as constituting an important part of the causes of this problem. Part of the solution to hunger and poverty lays in establishing increasingly sustainable trade agreements. In short: eat fair, beat hunger.

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