Fairtrade growth brings benefits to 1.2 million producers and workers

The Fair trade Labelling organization (FLO) units all the smaller certifying organizations who own the fair trade mark, so which means they are supposed to respect all the ethical underlying standards. It’s the FLO who published in 2008 an evaluation and monitoring report which is entitled ‘the Benefits Of Fair Trade’. This report is based on data from audits and gives us an answer to the effectiveness of fair-trade.


A first conclusion is that more than one million producers benefited from fair trade in 2009 and this already huge importance can only raise in the future. Secondly fair trade’s biggest presence is in East-Africa but there is a spectacular growth noticeable in the Caribbean, Central America, Middle Africa and Southern Asia. People living in these continents need the fair trade organization to get a fair price for their goods and that is why small producers are able to survive. The last striking given learns us that coffee is still the biggest fair trade product next to tea, cotton, honey, cacao and bananas.

I think it is really important that this report gives the FLO a more complete picture of faire trade, and about how workers and producers may benefit from the organization all over the world. This is also the way it enables them to do better in the future besides it gives them an idea if fair trade is making a significant difference to producers.

Used source:

http://www.confectionerynews.com/Markets/Fairtrade-growth-brings-benefits-to-1.2-milion-producers-and-workers

Link to the report from 2008:

http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/2009/resources/Benefits_of_Fairtrade_2008.pdf

Stefanie De Lille