Library
Fairtrade Research and Publications
Highlights
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Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence - Traders
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Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence - Plantations
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Guidebook: Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence - Farmer Cooperatives
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2022 Annual Report
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Impact of Fairtrade on flower workers and market access of flower farms in East Africa
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A Fair Price for Human Rights Due Diligence
All Publications
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Fairtrade certification and producer resilience in times of crises
Published: 18 Oct 2022
Small-scale farmers are increasingly faced with three concurrent crises: (1) COVID-19, (2) climate change, and (3) financial crises, including inflation affecting both farm and household expenses and falling commodity prices. In this context, resilience is more vital than ever to achieve sustainable livelihoods. This ...
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2021-2022 Annual Report
Published: 12 Oct 2022
Resilience is more important than ever. Our annual report reflects on the progress of the past year, which brought farmers and workers €190 million in Fairtrade Premium despite the onoing pandemic, rising costs, and effects of climate change. "Now, we are proud to support the next generation of sustainability leaders. And ...
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Guidebook: Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence - Farmer Cooperatives
Published: 3 Aug 2022
The guidebook, titled Implementing Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence: Why and how to align your policies and processes with HREDD, is a global first that aims to strengthen the position of farmer coperatives and other small-scale producer organisations in global supply chains and arm them with the know-how to ...
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Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Poverty Reduction and Economic Resilience through Rural Development
Published: 10 Jun 2022
Fairtrade Germany and Fairtrade Austria commissioned Mainlevel Consulting to implement an applied research project that aims at identifying the contribution of Fairtrade on poverty reduction through rural development. The research assesses Fairtrade’s contribution across four different sustainability dimensions – economic ...
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Evaluation and baseline research with small producer organizations producing Fairtrade sugar: Belize country report
Published: 3 Jun 2022
RMI Services Ltd. (RMI) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) conducted research to measure the impact of Fairtrade certification and other Fairtrade interventions on sugar production by small-scale farmers in Belize. Using a multi-strategy research design, using both quantitative and qualitative data collection ...
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Exploring Fairtrade's Impact: A review of research on Fairtrade from 2015-2020
Published: 27 May 2022
We commissioned an independent review of recent studies to gain a comprehensive picture of the extent and depth of our impact in the areas we aim to influence that ultimately drive benefits for farmers and workers. Researchers reviewed 151 studies that related to important areas of our global strategy and the theory of ...
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Tracking Fairtrade's Impact: results of household surveys with banana, cocoa and coffee farmers
Published: 20 May 2022
Fairtrade collected a broad set of data between 2016 and 2018 to get a snapshot of Fairtrade's impact for farmers and certified cooperatives (known as small-scale producer organizations or SPOs). The aims were: To measure benefits of Fairtrade at the household, producer organization and community levels -- according to ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Overview - Monitoring Report, 13th Edition
Published: 13 May 2022
This report summarizes data on Fairtrade certified organizations, farmers and workers, production, and Fairtrade Premium earned across all products during 2020. For instance, 1,880 Fairtrade producer organizations representing more than 1.9 million farmers and workers earned more than €191 million in 2020. Regional ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Asia Pacific region - Monitoring report, 13th Edition
Published: 13 May 2022
This report includes 2020 monitoring data for the Asia Pacific region, as well as results of producer surveys.Producer organizations in Asia Pacific make up about 16% of all Fairtrade certified organizations worldwide: by the end of 2020, there were 303 Fairtrade producer organizations in 21 countries throughout the ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Africa and Middle East region - Monitoring report, 13th Edition
Published: 13 May 2022
This report includes 2020 monitoring data for the Africa and Middle East region, as well as results of producer surveys.Producer organizations in Africa and the Middle East make up about one-third of all Fairtrade certified organizations worldwide: by the end of 2020, there were 627 Fairtrade producer organizations in 28 ...
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