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Food Standards Certification and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda
Georg-August-University of Göttingen analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade Organic and UTZ – on the livelihoods…

Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade
This report now in its Sixth Edition gives the results of the 2013 monitoring data collection from Fairtrade certified producer…

Monitoring the scope and benefits of Fairtrade – seventh edition 2015
This report gives the results of the 2014 monitoring data collection from Fairtrade certified producer organizations

Response to Fairtrade bananas global assessment of impact
Summary and Management Response to ‘Fairtrade Bananas: a Global Assessment of Impact’


Response to Fairtrade impact on worker empowerment in Ecuadorian flower plantations
Summary and response from the commissioning agencies Fairtrade International and Max Havelaar-Foundation (Switzerland) to an independent impact study on Fairtrade-certified…

Response to Fairtrades impact on poverty reduction through rural development
Response from the commissioning agencies TransFair Germany and Max Havelaar Foundation (Switzerland) to an Independent Impact Study on Fairtrade conducted…

Improving conditions in tea plantations in Assam
There is no easy fix to the issues in Assam. Many have their roots in colonial times and are deeply…

Fairtrade Coffee: Social sustainability
This report examines how fair trade coffee is strengthening coffee communities. The content is based on interviews conducted during a…

Sugar commodity briefing
Around 80 per cent of the worlds sugar is derived from sugar cane grown by millions of small-scale farmers and…