The Fair Rubber Association is sometimes asked, why the share of Fairly Traded rubber is so small. There are a number of key reasons. One is, that natural rub-ber can, to some extent, be substituted for by synthetic rubber (which is made from petroleum). And if petroleum is cheap – as it is nowadays, why […]
It is somewhat unusual for the Fair Rubber Association to get a call from the Financial Times (FT). What was even more unusual was the question: What happens to rubber farmers and tappers when tyre companies and other rubber processing factories shut down? The answer is clear: They lose all income. No buyer, no sale,
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Indonesia is the 2nd biggest producer of natural rubber. However, until now, the Fair Rubber Association (FRA) did not have any Fair Trade supply chains there. Last October, following the request of a new member, a delegation of the FRA went to Indonesia and did the ground work in order to help small farmers and