Fair Trade, Provenance & Certification

Buyers increasingly need to say something verifiable about who made an item and under what conditions. The available instruments include fair-trade certification, cooperative membership, geographical indication registration, craft marks issued by national bodies, and direct traceability to a named workshop. Each proves something different, and none of them proves all of it. This page separates what each instrument actually certifies from what marketing tends to imply, so that provenance claims survive a buyer's own compliance review.

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