Fairtrade chocolate is produced under the fair-trade umbrella. The fair-trade foundation exists to provide producers with a fair market price for their products. Fairtrade chocolate is one of the main products produced under the fair-trade label. One of the fairtrade chocolate producers is the Conacado cooperative. This cooperative was established in 1988 and has over nine thousand members. They produce over 13,000 tonnes of organic fair-trade chocolate. The income generated from fair-trade chocolate has allowed the cooperative to produce organic products which are increasingly in high demand.

Cocoa farmers are some of the poorest people in the world and many of them earn on average about £50 a year. They depend on selling their beans to pay for the essential things in life including Wellington boots to protect their feet from the scorpions that live among the cocoa trees. However many farmers don't make enough money from selling their beans and can't afford food, medicine, clean water or school for their children.

In 1993, a small group of cocoa framers in Ghana, West Africa realized that by working together they could get more money from the people who bought their cocoa. They pooled their resources and set up their own business called Kuapa Kokoo which means "good cocoa farmer" in their local language of Twi. In 1998, Kuapa Kokoo joined forces with a group of UK organisations who care about getting cocoa farmers a better deal. They formed The Day Chocolate Company and started making their own fair-trade chocolate bar - Divine. For the first time, Kuapa Kokoo began to make money from selling fair-trade chocolate as well as from growing cocoa beans. The farmers own a third of the company's shares which means they also have a say in how the chocolate is produced and sold. In January 2000, Comic Relief teamed up with Kuapa Kokoo and The Day Chocolate Company to create a fair-trade chocolate bar for young people called Dubble. The wrapper was designed by an 11-year-old girl called Gracie from Exeter who beat 16,203 other competition entrants.

Cocoa pods are about the size of American footballs and contain moist white cocoa beans and pulp. These are expertly fermented and dried to develop the chocolate taste Cocoa is one of the most environmentally friendly tropical crops.

Fairtrade chocolate can be purchased in various forms .A range of fair-trade chocolates and fairtarde chocolate bars are produced by divine and soluble fairtrade chocolate used for hot chocolate drinks can be purchased form Garraways.