a supermarket here we buy almost everything we need in our day-to-day lives our decisions on what to buy are based on taste quality and price but what you might not know is that the decisions we make can have a significant impact Fairtrade products vastly improve the working and living conditions of families in developing countries but how does their trade even work let's take this pack of coffee as an example Fairtrade coffee farmers don't work alone they are members of cooperatives and organize democratically there are many advantages to this system a central component of the Fairtrade system is the minimum price which is the minimum that farmers organizations are paid when selling their products through fair trade additionally producer organizations receive the Fairtrade premium it is up to the farmers and workers to decide how to use the premium they might build wells and hospitals by better farming equipment or invest in switching to organic farming having a stable income can drastically improve a whole families opportunities copy is the most well known fair trade product however there is a huge range of Fairtrade products available from bananas ice cream rice cocoa sugar herbs honey dried fruits and nuts to fruit juices tea and wine even flowers cotton and sport Falls can be Fairtrade certified so now it's over to you in your daily shopping look for the fair trade mark and choose products that change lives for over 1.5 million farmers and workers worldwide fair trade the power is in your hands