Reports and briefing papers

Below is a list of reports and papers written by the Fairtrade Foundation, unless otherwise stated.  Download in PDF format by clicking on the title.  

Fairtrade policy

• Five Key Fairtrade Benefits: core standards and practice behind Fairtrade Labelling (March 2008) 
• Retail pricing of Fairtrade products: Questions and Answers (April 2006)
• Are consumers getting a fair deal from Fairtrade? (March 2005)
• Review of UK supply chains, returns to producers and retail margin issues  
• Does Fairtrade encourage global oversupply and low prices?

Environment

• Why the climate revolution must be a fair revolution (November 2009)
• Egalité, Fraternité, Sustainabilité: Why the climate revolution must be a fair revolution (October 2009)
• Fairtrade, climate change and sustainable production: common questions and answers
• Q & A: Fairtrade Standards and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (January 2008)

The impact of Fairtrade

• The Benefits of Fairtrade: A Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Fairtrade Certified Producer Organisations for 2007 (FLO, February 2010)
• A review of the impact of Fairtrade over the last ten years (Natural Resources Institute, Sept 2009)
• Thriving in a Hostile Environment: Fairtrade as a positive mechanism for disadvantaged producers (Alex Nicholls)
• Making Trade Work for Producers (Max Havelaar Netherlands) (November 2003)
• 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 
• The Economics of Fairtrade (Mark Hayes and Geoff Moore, 2005)
• The Impact of Fairtrade Towns  (Louise Taplin, 2009)

General briefing papers

• Annual reports
  
• Buying Into Fairtrade: procurement in the public and private sector (March 2007)
  
• Fairtrade and Make Poverty History
• Fairtrade Foundation submission to IDC inquiry into Fair Trade  (February 2007)   
• Tipping the Balance The Fairtrade Foundation’s strategy for 2008 to 2012.
• Fairtrade and the Global Food Crisis - FLO Briefing (September 2008)
• The global food crisis and Fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions? (February 2009)

Products

• Bananas: Behind the Price Tag
• Bananas: Unpeeling the Banana Trade - A Fairtrade Foundation Briefing Paper (February 2009) 
• Cocoa chart - comparison of Fairtrade price and world market price  (January 2010)   
• Coffee chart (arabica) - comparison of Fairtrade price and world market price (January 2010)  
• Coffee chart (robusta) - comparison of Fairtrade price and world market price (January 2010)  
• Redressing a Global Imbalance - The Case for Fairtrade Certified Cotton - A Fairtrade Foundation Briefing Paper (November 2005)  
• Fairtrade Cotton: Questions and Answers
• Fairtrade Olive oil: Questions and Answers
• Fairtrade Roses: Questions and Answers (February 2006)
• Fairtrade Sportsballs: Questions and Answers
• Stirring up the tea trade; Can we build a better future for tea producers (1210.80KB) February 2010
  

Other online information

• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
  
• World Cocoa Foundation
• International Coffee Organisation
• International Cocoa Organisation
• Sugaronline
• European Fair Trade Association