Banana farmer Ángel Guzmán Santana, from the Las Mercedes producer association in the Dominican Republic, with a face mask tending to a banana plant. Credit Fairtrade

Programme brief: Fairtrade Foundation’s approach to living wages

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.