Reports and briefing papers
All reports and papers in this section are produced by the Fairtrade Foundation unless otherwise stated. Click the title to download a pdf.
Fairtrade policy
Fairtrade commodity briefings
Environment
The impact of Fairtrade
- Fairtrade in the banana sector (Institute of Development Studies, December 2011)
- Summary and Fairtrade response to Fairtrade in the Banana sector (Fairtrade Foundation, December 2011)
Impact of Fairtrade Bananas - summary and response in Spanish/en Español (Fairtrade Foundation, December 2011)
Fairtrade monitoring and evaluation reports
- The impact of Fairtrade labelling on small-scale producers: Conclusions of the first studies (Max Havelaar Netherlands, April 2009)
- Making Trade Work for Producers (Max Havelaar France, November 2003)
- A review of the impact of Fairtrade over the last ten years (Natural Resources Institute, September 2009)
- The Impact of Fairtrade on Producers and their Organisations: A case Study with Coocafé in Costa Rica (Ronchi, L., Prus Working paper No. 11, Poverty Research Unit at Sussex, University of Sussex, June 2002)
- Thriving in a Hostile Environment: Fairtrade as a positive mechanism for disadvantaged producers (Alex Nicholls, 2008)
- The Economics of Fairtrade (Mark Hayes and Geoff Moore, 2005)
- The Impact of Fairtrade Towns (Louise Taplin, 2009)
- Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption, Alex Nicholls & Charlotte Opal - link to external website
- Colorado State University Fair Trade Research Group - link to case studies on external website
General briefing papers
Products
Other online information