Fair Trade Flower Campaigns & Labels

Our vision is to improve the standard of living for workers on farms within the flower industry and to improve the environmental conditions on these different farms and in their surroundings.

MPS is an international certification organization which assesses and certifies the environmental performance of its 4.000 participants. MPS concentrates on entrepreneurs from the floriculture, bulb-, nursery stock- and vegetables sector. Environment, quality and social aspects are the main topics of MPS.

ILRF launched a Fairness in Flowers Campaign on Mother’s Day in 2003, a holiday that accounts for a large part of the cut flower sales in the United States. The Campaign will raise awareness in the US about labor rights violations and health and safety problems in the cut flower industry in Ecuador and Colombia, and seek improvements through action in the US and Latin America. A survey of 8000 workers in plantations near Bogota found that workers were exposed to 127 different pesticides, three of which are considered extremely toxic…