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

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• 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)
• Fairtrade retail prices and producer prices explained (July 2012)
• Review of UK supply chains, returns to producers and retail margin issues  
• Does Fairtrade encourage global oversupply and low prices?
• The Fairtrade Foundation's submission to the European Commission's public consultation on the future of European Trade Policy (July 2010)
• The Fairtrade Foundation's submission to the UK Government's public consultation on the Trade White Paper (January 2011)
• Fair and local - Farmers of the world unite? A discussion paper comparing the experience of marginalised farmers across the world (November 2011) 
• Executive summary of 'Fair and local - Farmers of the world unite' (November 2011)
• Making supply chains work for smallholder farmers (full report, May 2012)
• Making supply chains work for smallholder farmers (executive summary, May 2012)
• Powering up smallholder farmers to make food fair (full report, Feb 2013)
• Powering up smallholder farmers to make food fair (media version, Feb 2013) 
• How businesses are going further to make international supply chains work for smallholder farmers (full report, Feb 2013)
• How businesses are going further to make international supply chains work for smallholder farmers (executive summary, Feb 2013)

Fairtrade commodity briefings

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• Sugar commodity briefing (full report) (January 2013)
• Sugar commodity briefing (summary)  (January 2013) 

• Coffee commodity briefing (full report) (May 2012)
• Coffee commodity briefing (summary) (May 2012)

• Cocoa commodity briefing (full report)  (Aug 2011)
• Cocoa commodity briefing (summary)  (Aug 2011)

Environment

• Powerpoint presentation  - Fairtrade and climate change. Great to use at events or in class and can be altered to suit different audiences
• Food Miles and Fairtrade - A position paper on Fairtrade and the food miles debate (2011)
  
• Why the climate revolution must be a fair revolution: Summary of the Fairtrade Foundation Discussion Paper (Fairtrade Foundation, October 2009)
• Egalité, Fraternité, Sustainabilité: Why the climate revolution must be a fair revolution (Fairtrade Foundation, 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

• Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Poverty Reduction through Rural development - Full report (commissioned by TransFair Germany and Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland, 2012)
• Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Poverty Reduction through Rural development - Summary of results (commissioned by TransFair Germany and Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland, 2012)
• Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Poverty Reduction through Rural development - Response from TransFair Germany and Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland (commissioned by TransFair Germany and Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland, 2012)

• Impact Assessment study of Tea Producers in Malawi (Natural Resources Institute, 2009)

• Impact Assessment study of Sugar Producers in Malawi (Natural Resources Institute, 2010)

• Branching out: Fairtrade in Malawi (Fairtrade Foundation, April 2013)

• Branching out: Fairtrade in Malawi executive summary(Fairtrade Foundation April 2013)

• Taking Root: Fairtrade in Malawi (Fairtrade Foundation, April 2011)

• Impact of Fairtrade cotton - Fairtrade Foundation response (May 2012)
• Impact of Fairtrade cotton - Executive summary of report by NRI and IDS (May 2012)
• Impact of Fairtrade cotton - report by NRI and IDS (May 2012)

• 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 Tea: Early impacts in Malawi (Fairtrade Foundation, June 2010)

   

  • Impacts of Fairtrade in South Africa (Fairtrade Foundation, June 2010)

  
  
  Fairtrade monitoring and evaluation reports
   

  • Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade - Fourth Edition, 2012 (Fairtrade International, January 2013)
  • Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade - Third Edition, 2011 (Fairtrade International, December 2011) 
  • The Benefits of Fairtrade 2nd edition: A Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Fairtrade Certified Producer Organisations for 2008 (Fairtrade International, August 2010)
  • The Benefits of Fairtrade: A Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Fairtrade Certified Producer Organisations for 2007 (Fairtrade International, February 2010) 

  
   

  • 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
  

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  • 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)   
  • Fairtrade and the Global Food Crisis - Fairtrade International Briefing (September 2008)
  • The global food crisis and Fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions? (Fairtrade Foundation, February 2009)
  • Unlocking the Power of Many: Fairtrade Foundation 2013-2015 strategy (February 2013) (download PDF)
  • Unlocking the Power of Many: Fairtrade Foundation 2013-2015 strategy (February 2013) (interactive version)

  
   

  Products

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  • Bananas: Behind the Price Tag
  • Bananas: Unpeeling the Banana Trade - A Fairtrade Foundation Briefing Paper (February 2009) 

   

  • Cocoa chart - comparision of Fairtrade price and world market price (February 2013)

   

  • Coffee chart (arabica) - comparision of Fairtrade price and world market price (February 2013)

  • Coffee chart (robasta) - comparision of Fairtrade price and world market price (January 2013)

   

  • Readressing 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 (2009)
  • Fairtrade Roses: Questions and Answers (February 2006)
  • Fairtrade Sportsballs: Questions and Answers (2008)
  • Fairtrade Vegetables: Questions and Answers  (May 2010)
  • Stirring up the tea trade; Can we build a better future for tea producers (1210.80KB) (February 2010)
  • Fairtrade Standard for Tea factsheet (654.50KB)
  • Fairtrade Sugar: Starting a sweet revolution (February 2012)

   

   

  Other online information

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