Fair Trade and Environmental Sustainability
Over the past decade, many NGOs have been working in economically disadvantaged agricultural regions around the globe to organize cooperative trade systems in which growers receive a fair price and a living wage for their products. The movement has also been promoting ecologically sound growing and foraging practices, workplace safety, and gender equality.
Organic Herb Trade is committed to supporting fair trade and ecologically sustainable farming practices worldwide. We’re partnered with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Siberian Tiger Project, which is working in the Russian Far-East to curtail the poaching of endangered Siberian tigers and their prey. This pilot program pays a premium to local people who gather organic medicinal plants and also agree to restrict their hunting in the tigers’ habitat.
Organic Herb Trade’s products that are available with fair trade or other socially/environmentally conscious certifications are marked with an (FT) after the ingredient name on our product lists. Please ask us for certification details. We expect to have an increasing selection of these items as they become available for certification.
As more fair-trade-certified and sustainability harvested products become available, Organic Herb Trade expects to offer an increasing selection of them.