Why was the Symbol created?

For several decades, those of us working in small producers’ organizations in disadvantaged countries have been struggling for a better future for our children, promoting sustainable production and fair prices.

Today, we can affirm that our organizations have managed to establish solid collective enterprises and to sell a wide variety of quality products around the world, for the benefit of producers’ families and communities, as well as the environment.

In a world economy that is increasingly dominated by large-scale private corporations, we need this Symbol in order to continue to compete on the basis of the quality and unique values of our products and our work.