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Left: Consumer power for change with Fairtrade shopping.
Centre and right: Trade Justice Movement lobbying against unfair Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

Free trade or fair trade?

Enabling communities to work their way out of poverty is central to MRDF's overseas work. But unfair trade policies make this impossible for many people. At MRDF we believe that trade justice is more important than free trade, that is why we are members of the Trade Justice Movement.

 

Choosing Fairtrade marked products is an important parallel to supporting overseas development. Has your church or circuit signed become a Fairtrade Church yet? Find out how with the Fairtrade Foundation's Church Action Guide 2008.