This paper outlines five key pillars to Fairtrade Foundation’s approach to living wages and reflects on industry-wide progress to achieving living wages for workers. Fairtrade programmes and expertise – together with the strengths of our producer networks across the world – make us uniquely placed to tackle the deeply embedded barriers to living wages.
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