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Standing together with communities experiencing injustice, we fight for trade that values people over profit. We used to be called Traidcraft Exchange.

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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 26/08/2026
If you haven’t ordered your free The Labels We’d Like To See campaign pack - with everything you need to run a simple creative action in your community - make sure you do so by the 10th of September! Order your free pack here: action.transform-trade.org/order-your-c...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 23/06/2026
🌲 Today's announcement from the UK Government on tackling deforestation-linked commodities is an important step forward. Mandatory due diligence can help protect forests, tackle climate change and create greater accountability in global supply chains. But...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 16/06/2026
🌳Join us and SEATINI next Wednesday for a webinar focusing on new Deforestation regulation in the EU and UK and what it means for cocoa and coffee in East Africa: Register here! 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 09/06/2026
It's time to recognise small-scale producers' immense contribution in an uncertain, fractured world - and make sure they can thrive. Read our new Beyond Aid report here: www.transform-trade.org/beyond-aid
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 21/04/2026
20 years ago, the Companies Act 2006 made it law for directors to consider their impacts on communities, workers and the environment. It’s time to move beyond consideration to real action. Join the campaign: www.transform-trade.org/no-more
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Civil Society @civilsociety.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Some charities including @transform-trade.org and @addinternational.bsky.social are taking steps to address power imbalances by decentralising decision-making and embracing localisation. Léa Legraien looks at what this looks like in practice
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In-depth: How international charities are shifting power away from the UK
Some charities are taking steps to address power imbalances by decentralising decision-making and embracing localisation. Léa Legraien looks at what this looks like in practice…
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New research from Friends of the Earth, RimbaWatch and @earthsight.bsky.social reveals the grim truth of the Malaysian timber trade. Head to the link in our bio to see the research in full and demand a new law to ensure UK companies protect people and wildlife in their global supply chains.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 23/03/2026
The war in the Middle East has sparked a supply chain crisis - and smallholder farmers are struggling, with many having to accept prices as low as 50% of the usual rate for their produce or struggling to sell at all.⁠ CEO Alice Oyaro, quoted in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 11/12/2025
After over 1,500 Transform Trade supporters contacted their MP to demand fairness for smallholder farmers, we've taken the next step in our Don't Cut Out Smallholders campaign.⁠ Alongside the Fairtrade Foundation, we have written to @marycreagh.bsky.social...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 21/11/2025
Riverford's survey is damning - over two thirds of UK famers feel their relationship with retailers has worsened over the last two years. It's a similar story for farmers in countries around the world that supply the UK market. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/radical...
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Radical reform of supermarket practices urgently needed, say farmers
Over two thirds of farmers feel the relationship between growers and retailers has worsened in the last two years, according to a new survey commissioned by Riverford…
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 19/11/2025
Calls for a #JustTransition at #COP30 are key for women workers in India and across the world - enabling them to become more resilient to climate shocks by building social protection systems that secure their livelihoods. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/03/f...
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For Indian women workers, a just transition means surviving climate impacts with dignity
SEWA's members call for just transition talks at COP30 to help them become more resilient to climate shocks by building social protection systems that secure their livelihoods
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 13/11/2025
At #COP30, the UK Government should be committing to finance international efforts targeted at helping indigenous people - including farmers - to preserve forests. Read our latest blog here: www.transform-trade.org/blog/why-cop...
Why COP30 matters for farmers, forests and fair trade in front of a picture collage of the COP30 conference centre and a forest
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 16/10/2025
To mark #WorldFoodDay, we’re calling on the UK Government to make sure new deforestation laws work with farmers, not against them.⁠ ⁠ The food and drink we love most - chocolate, coffee, and more - depends on millions of smallholder farmers.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 10/10/2025
The UK market is responsible for clearing a forest area the size of Liverpool every year. It is therefore welcome to see the EU and the UK take steps to address this.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 17/09/2025
Trump's visit legitimises his tariff actions that are destroying small producer livelihoods and undermining national economies across the globe.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 03/09/2025
A proposal has been put forward in Parliament calling for stronger protections and better regulation of the food supply chain - and your MP needs to know about it.⁠ ⁠ This is a huge opportunity for farmers at home and abroad - find out more here: www.transform-trade.org/fairness-for...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 13/08/2025
🇵🇸 🌾Seed banks are a lifeline for farmers the world over. Israeli forces' recent, deliberate destruction of a Palestinian seed bank in the West Bank is an attack on the right to share and save indigenous seed varieties. (1/2)
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 11/07/2025
More Trump tariffs are on their way: with unrealistic and unfair demands brought upon countries including Bangladesh - which has been hit with a 35% tariff. The UK Government must stand with the Global South and support trade justice. Read our latest blog: www.transform-trade.org/blog/trump-t...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 19/06/2025
🌞Exploitation is no picnic - so we’re marking #NationalPicnicWeek by handing in the Corporate Justice Coalition's #BizHumanRights petition at Downing Street and the Department for Business and Trade. 145,000 people called for this new law - including 33,000 from Transform Trade!
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 11/06/2025
Trade democracy is common sense - but currently, the UK Parliament has no guaranteed right to debate or vote on deals - and the current government is yet to set out its trade strategy. We unpack all this and more in our latest blog: www.transform-trade.org/blog/trump-t...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 06/06/2025
Trade democracy means having full democratic oversight of trade deals and policies- and it's currently something the UK lacks. We've unpacked the tariff chaos and the need for scrutiny on both sides of the pond in our latest blog post: www.transform-trade.org/blog/trump-t...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 22/05/2025
Our new Wearing Thin report, which surveyed 198 Indian garment manufacturers, report found brands cancelling orders, paying late and refusing to pay minimum wage. Read the report and email your MP today, we need a Fashion Watchdog to hold brands to account. www.transform-trade.org/fashion-watc...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day, we're talking about one of the planet's most delicious natural resources - cocoa - and why the climate crisis is hitting growers and consumers alike. Read more: bit.ly/3YdSc1I
Enesti Jacobu Mwabusega is a cocoa farmer harvesting cocoa fruits on her farm.

Location: Mababu Ward, Kyela District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania.Mzinala S. Lutolo and her husband work together after harvesting the cocoa fruits from their farm. He cuts the cocoa fruits in half, and she removes the cocoa beans from the cocoa fruit and fills it in the bucket.

Location: Mababu Ward, Kyela District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
Joseph Asangalwisye Mwaigomole holds a well-ripe cocoa fruit cut in half, exposing the cocoa beans during his harvest.

Location: Mababu Ward, Kyela District, Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 04/04/2025
The Trump administration's wave of worldwide tariffs is the biggest upheaval to world trade in 100 years. Workers and producers in the Global South are likely to be hardest hit. Bangladesh is facing 37% tariffs, Sri Lanka 45%, Cambodia 49%.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 20/03/2025
Until the 11th of April, your donations to the #1000BusinessesAppeal will be DOUBLED. Your donation will make twice the impact to the farmers and producer businesses that are transforming trade every day. Find out more and donate here: www.transform-trade.org/1000
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 28/02/2025
Our campaign to get damaging UPOV91 seed laws out of UK trade deals is growing steadily.⁠ ⁠ UPOV91 threatens the way farmers have exchanged and saved seeds for generations - by letting large multinationals privatise seeds. Find out more and take action:⁠ www.transform-trade.org/seeds-campaign
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 12/02/2025
With Trump's trade tariffs dominating the headlines right now, you might be wondering what they are and why they matter – and how they impact producers across the world. www.transform-trade.org/blog/tariffs-trade-and-trump-what-do-recent-headlines-mean-for-producers-in-the-global-south-nbsp
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 06/02/2025
Want to ensure a fairer deal for fashion’s worst paid workers? We need to talk about collective bargaining. Read our new blog by guest collaborators Rohan Preece and Shriya Srivastava: www.transform-trade.org/blog/a-faire...
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Want to ensure a fairer deal for fashion’s worst paid workers? We need to talk about collective bargaining. — Transform Trade
This blog has been written by Rohan Preece and Shriya Srivastava. The visit was enabled by a partnership between SOAS University of London and Transform Trade. When we met her in her village in Nor...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 20/01/2025
It's Blue Monday - but we've decided to fight back against pessimism and look forward to the year ahead. There's no limit to the brilliant things you can do to support the fight for a fairer trade system in 2025! Read more: www.transform-trade.org/blog/transfo...
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Transforming Trade in 2025 - what’s in store for the New Year? — Transform Trade
Already, we are mid-way through January - and we’re looking ahead to what 2025 has in store for the global trade system, and to Transform Trade’s plans to tackle injustice across the world. From sup...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 15/01/2025
The right to share and save seeds is under threat - and a little-known trade mechanism called UPOV91 is to blame. And to make matters worse - UK trade deals are complicit in spreading this around the world. Find out more and take action here: www.transform-trade.org/seeds-campaign
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 24/12/2024
🎄Our UK office Christmas tree is full of messages of hope and solidarity from supporters and donors to the #WorkWithoutFear Appeal. Thank you to everyone who sent in a paper bauble message. 🎅Merry Christmas!
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 12/12/2024
It's Christmas Jumper Day - and here's your chance to stand with the people who make millions of jumpers for the UK market. Call upon your MP to stand up for fairer fashion by backing the #FashionWatchdog - it takes less than a minute! bit.ly/4ivX9LK
Who made my jumper?

Elves (no)

Workers (yes)
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 03/12/2024
Read more about the Work Without Fear appeal here - and remember, your DOUBLED donation will be the best deal you'll get this Christmas... www.transform-trade.org/christmas
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Work without fear - Christmas Appeal — Transform Trade
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 03/12/2024
🚨Today is #GivingTuesday – until midnight, donations to the Work Without Fear Christmas Appeal will be DOUBLED! Will you fight for a safer future for women across the world? bit.ly/4ikXSzs
Today only: Double your Donation on Giving Tuesday£30 = £60 - could fund a grant to provide female workers with vital safety equipment

£50 = £100 could provide training for female entrepreneurs

£350 = £700 could help set up two women-run community owned shops in rural areas
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 26/11/2024
📣SAVE THE DATE Next Tuesday, 3rd December, is #GivingTuesday. For just 24 hours your donation to Transform Trade will be DOUBLED. It’s your chance to make twice as much difference in the lives of millions of women fighting against exploitation and injustice.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 25/11/2024
✊Transform Trade stands with communities, organisations and governments calling for an end to this unjust system of #ISDS. The UK should terminate its agreement with Colombia.
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 21/11/2024
We support the call for a UK law on mandatory due diligence. It means standing by the human rights defenders who face threats for protecting people and our planet. Read @peacebrigades.ch UK's 🆕report on why #HRDs need a law on #BizHumanRights! peacebrigades.org.uk/news/thecase...
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The Case for Change: Why human rights defenders need a UK law on mandatory due diligence — Peace Brigades International UK
Human rights defenders are paying the price for UK profits A new Peace Brigades International (PBI) UK investigation shows links between UK companies, environmental devastation and attacks o...
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Transform Trade @transform-trade.org · 20/11/2024
In north-west Bangladesh we're supporting communities to set up 100 women-owned convenience stores. The shops sell products usually hard to find in rural areas, as well as providing employment and a safe space for women to meet together outside the home. tinyurl.com/workwithoutf...
"We have started our store only recently, but our success has ignited our enthusiasm for the business.

It is slowly evolving into an entity that is helping to strengthen the communication amongst men and women in the society 

- Eva Rani, store owner£30 could fund a grant to provide female workers with vital safety equipment

£50 could provide training for female entrepreneurs

£110 could fund a farmers' association to recruit and train women to take up positions of leadershop

$350 could help set up a community-owned shop in a rural area

£500 could help fund gender equality training
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