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Fairtrade Research and Publications
Highlights
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Women's access, equity and empowerment: Progress and uptake of the Fairtrade gender strategy
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Promoting living incomes in the cocoa sector: Policy options for consumer countries
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Overview - Monitoring report, 11th Edition
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2019-2020 Annual Report
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Fairtrade: Sustainable trade for sustainable development
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Fairtrade West Africa Cocoa Programme Monitoring Report, First Edition
All Publications
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Analysis of the producer level impact of Fairtrade on the environment
Published: 23 Dec 2020
Fairtrade International commissioned a study to examine the impact of Fairtrade with regard to environmental protection, biodiversity conservation and adaptation to climate change. For this purpose, the following three Fairtrade interventions were assessed: Fairtrade Standards (Standard for Small-scale Producer ...
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Women's access, equity and empowerment: Progress and uptake of the Fairtrade gender strategy
Published: 10 Dec 2020
This study was commissioned to assess progress on the Fairtrade Gender Strategy 2016-2020, which seeks to build women's equality through three goals: Access and inclusion: Significantly increase the active and equal participation of women in Fairtrade certified smallholder and hired labour organizations; Empowerment and ...
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2019-2020 Annual Report
Published: 8 Dec 2020
Our annual report for 2019-2020 highlights Fairtrade's impact for more than 1.7 million farmers and workers around the world. Focusing on key metrics from 2019, innovative programmes, and timely research, the report presents our work on five strategic priorities: building benefits for farmers and workers, deepening impact ...
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Fairtrade certified tea in the hired labour sector in India and Sri Lanka: Impact study and baseline data collection
Published: 20 Nov 2020
Fairtrade International commissioned this study to better understand Fairtrade’s impact for tea plantations and workers in India and Sri Lanka, in advance of a review of the product-specific Fairtrade Standard for Tea. Researchers from ISS jointly with Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, India; Centre ...
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Promoting living incomes in the cocoa sector: Policy options for consumer countries
Published: 18 Nov 2020
The case for delivering living incomes in the cocoa sector has been made extensively by Fairtrade, amongst many others. A living income is a basic human right. It enables farmers to secure the basic necessities of life, and from there, to sustain production in harmony with the natural environment and address systemic ...
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Fairtrade - Partnering for Impact
Published: 29 Oct 2020
We acknowledge that we cannot achieve our vision through certification alone. For this reason, Fairtrade complements its certification services with a range of tailored programmes, empowering farmers and workers to tackle their organizational and development challenges. Through strategic partnerships with private ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Overview - Monitoring report, 11th Edition
Published: 23 Oct 2020
This report includes data on the number of Fairtrade certified organizations, farmers and workers, and Fairtrade Premium earned across all products for the year 2018. The most recent product specific data can be found under www.fairtrade.net/impact.
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Fairtrade West Africa Cocoa Programme Monitoring Report, First Edition
Published: 3 Jun 2020
Fairtrade launched the West Africa Cocoa Programme in 2016, seeking to build strong and viable Fairtrade small-scale producer organizations that are responsive to their members’ and business partners’ needs. Well-managed and democratically run producer organizations are better placed to build long-term relationships with ...
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Fairtrade Living Income Progress Report
Published: 9 Apr 2020
Achieving living incomes for Fairtrade producers is at the heart of our mission and at the top of our agenda. In 2017, Fairtrade developed its Living Income Strategy, with a roadmap for making tangible progress towards living incomes. During the past year, Fairtrade has made important strides in moving the Living Income ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade: Cotton - Monitoring report, 10th Edition
Published: 3 Mar 2020
Cotton farmers in developing countries wield little power or influence. With high levels of illiteracy and limited land holdings, many cotton farmers live below the poverty line and depend on the middlemen or ginners who buy their cotton, often at prices below the cost of production. Rising costs of production, fluctuating ...
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