Fairtrade helps producers in developing countries to develop in a sustainable way. Through better trading conditions, they work on improving their living conditions and protecting the environment. A minimum price applies to Fairtrade products that serves as a safety net for low world market prices. In addition, farmers and workers organizations receive a development premium that they spend at their own discretion, such as training. Fairtrade conditions are checked independently.

Products with the Demeter certificate in the Netherlands always meet the requirements of organic farming, and therefore have the European quality mark for organic as well. On top of that, Demeter has additional conditions. For example, half of the feed must come from the company itself and a lower degree of fertilization applies. Biodynamic agriculture stems from anthroposophy, a philosophy of life that is based on cohesion between man, plant, animal, soil and cosmos. There is a lot of attention for closing biochemical cycles. The strict requirements and good control and transparency make Demeter one of the strictest quality marks for agriculture and animal husbandry.

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