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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Sustainable Development Goals and Fairtrade: The case for partnership
Published: 31 Oct 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015. The goals set the ambition of ending poverty “in all its forms, everywhere”, while leaving no-one behind. They represent a powerful opportunity to improve the lives of the 1.3 billion small scale farmers and agricultural workers ...
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2014-15 annual report: Global change, local leadership
Published: 3 Sep 2015
Our 2014-15 annual report was presented as a microsite, and provides an overview of key Fairtrade activities and statistics. Visit the 2014-2015 annual report microsite "Over the past year, we’ve trained and supported thousands of farmers to develop climate adaptation strategies. We have also developed the first ever ...
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Growing our cocoa, raising our voices: Participatory video research from Côte d’Ivoire - 2015
Published: 21 Jul 2015
Twenty-five women cocoa farmers from rural Côte d’Ivoire took part in a participatory film-making project, ‘Growing our Cocoa, Raising our Voices’, with support from Fairtrade and the Dutch research institution KIT. The women participated in four intensive days of training, where they learned filming and interviewing ...
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Evaluation of Strategic Fairtrade Funding Programme Phase II (2010-2013) for Fairtrade International
Published: 1 Jun 2015
The first phase of the Strategic Fairtrade Funding Programme (SFFP) programme concluded successfully in 2009. The second phase ended in 2013. A final evaluation of SFFP phase II (2010-2013) was carried out by the Netherlands-based consultancy firm Aidenvironment, an organization known for its expertise in the area of ...
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2013-14 annual report: Strong producers, strong future
Published: 21 Apr 2015
Our annual report for 2013-14 provides an overview of key Fairtrade activities and statistics. Fairtrade International and our members have united behind a common strategic framework for 2013-15, focussed on four key areas: Unlocking the power of smallholders Our work with smallholders will be world class, supporting them ...
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Fairtrade and cotton – 2015
Published: 31 Mar 2015
Millions of small-scale farmers in developing countries depend on cotton for their livelihoods. This briefing from the Fairtrade Foundation provides an industry overview, and explores why Fairtrade is needed and what it can achieve.
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Sugar crash: How EU reform is endangering the livelihoods of small farmers
Published: 28 Feb 2015
An end to the European Union’s quota system for ACP countries could push 200,000 people into poverty by 2020. For many of these people dependent on income from sugar, the end of quotas combined with falling sugar prices could create a dire situation. Fairtrade is calling on the EU to convene and lead an initiative that ...
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Assessing the benefits of Fairtrade orange juice for Brazilian small farmers
Published: 1 Oct 2014
Fairtrade orange juice has been on the Fairtrade market for almost 15 years with the majority coming from Fairtrade farmers in Brazil. This study by BSD Consulting of Brazil assesses the impact of Fairtrade for growers' cooperatives in Brazil. Three groups were selected in the major orange producing regions of Brazil. ...
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A seat at the table? Ensuring smallholder farmers are heard in public-private partnerships
Published: 30 Sep 2014
Governments and NGOs are increasingly partnering with the private sector to tackle global hunger and poverty, but this study from the Fairtrade Foundation warns that far from being a silver bullet, some agricultural public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Africa appear to prioritize commercial interests while ignoring the ...
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Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade – fifth edition – 2013
Published: 11 Jun 2014
This report gives the results of the annual monitoring data collection from Fairtrade certified producer organizations which took place during 2012. It presents the scope and scale of Fairtrade in 2012, and gives data for some key Fairtrade performance indicators from a producer perspective. The report also captures the ...
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