The range of products enlarges the equitable little by little to Quebec: one finds the bananas and the shea henceforth and, soon, will also be added of new fruit. expenses and dried. as well as of the flowers.
"These newcomers to carry close to 20 the number of products certified equitable offered in the province", indicated Isabelle Saint-German, coordinator of the program of equitable trade of Équiterre.
The organism oversees the holding of the Fortnight the equitable trades besides 2008, that take place everywhere in Quebec until May 15. According to Isabelle Saint-German, the programming of the event translates the growing importance that the Quebecois to grant the equitable trade.
The stakes bound to the increase of the cost of the food commodities would also encourages consumers to become the bound of the producers of the South of the planet.
"The equitable trade is a concrete way to help, for example, the producers of rice to face the present instability of the world food market," sustains Isabelle Saint-German.
A gesture of solidarity
In an equitable trading relationship, producers and purchasers are united within democratic associations where they fix the price of the goods together, while taking account of that that he / it some costs to produce them.
This price includes a social bonus that allows the producers to put local projects of economic development, according to their needs, in place. "For example, this money serves to dig some wells to improve water provision in gold to finance secondary schools to train technicians in some biologic agriculture", illustrate the spokeswoman of Équiterre.
According to her, the equitable trade does not have anything of a charity gesture. "It reconsider the trade, to determine a just and respectful price since the beginning and to create a commercial relationship on equal terms,: it is a political gesture."
A political gesture that would not really be costlier than what he / it usually costs to some, according to Équiterre. For example, to equal quality, certified coffee equitable and biologic "cost 16% on average dearer than the usual coffee, either less by $ 0.04 besides cup," one reads on the Internet site of the organism. Some equitable coffees would be even less expensive than the middle price of the non-equitable coffees.
"In addition to respect the rights of the workers of the South, the equitable trade allows the gourmets to offer itself / themselves of the elaborate products of quality to human scale", concludes Isabelle Saint-German.
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