Togo - Fair Trade
As part of a cooperation project, five senior French Scouts returned to Kpalimé, Togo, in 2005 to analyse and learn about how free trade was working.
This had been set up by the local farmers’ organisation, which wanted to use this dynamic to develop the region’s economy. During their three-week stay, the measures necessary to optimize the system became clear. They were: to expand the markets for, and to increase the return on, the production of dried fruits from commodities such as pineapples, mangos and bananas. The income from fair trade has already enabled 11 schools to be built and tracks in several villages to be renovated.
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