When you buy fair-trade you’re supporting a purchasing agreement that ensures the producer of that product is guaranteed a fair and sustainable price as well as healthy and safe working conditions. Fair-trade certifiers pay an additional premium to producers that is invested in environmental and community projects that allows developing areas to flourish through trade, not aid. Purchasing fair-trade goods gives the consumer a way to help in the effort of improving poor working conditions, raising minimum wages, ending the use of child labor, and limiting damage to the environment.