We have designed an exclusive “5-Star Gold-Standard” together with producers, traders as well as consumer-protectors and experts for sustainable development.

This is not about a new marketing-slogan or even a new organic- or Fair Trade-seal. It is rather about common rules of the game, that our member have agreed to follow voluntarily.

At the same time, they are a unique selling point, with which our members can distinguish themselves from other competitors on the market. And they are probably a unique possibility for consciously shopping consumers, to combine untroubled pleasure with a good conscience.

• Independently recognized organic certification
  according to the internationally valid IFOAM-guidelines
  or at least according to the respective legal minimum requirements.
  
  

• Fair Trade along the whole value chain
  i. a. Fair prices, dependable long-term business-relationships, ransparency towards all parties concerned as well as a clear commitment to supporting currently still weaker partners.
  
  

• Premium-quality products
  that satisfy all legal requirements as well as the
  high expectations of sophisticated consumers.
  
  
  

• Developing rural structures
  by supporting small family-farms and their
  medium-scale marketing-organisations in the local regions.
  
  
  

• Realization or support of innovative self-help-projects
  for the immediate improvement of the ecological,
  economic, social and medical situation of the people
  in the regions of production.
  

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Trust Organic Small Farmers does not compete with existing recognized seal-initiatives in the field of organic farming and/or Fair Trade. We control nothing. We help our members, to increase the market-share of their organically grown and Fairly Traded high-quality products. 

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