New Fairtrade report highlights how cocoa sector can help farmers ...

New Fairtrade report highlights how cocoa sector can best work ...

Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations, the report was commissioned by the Fairtrade Foundation to help the sector gain a deeper ...

The Fairtrade Foundation has released a new report revealing key insights into factors it says can “either enable or jeopardise the ability ...

Fairtrade report highlights key means of supporting cocoa growing ...

Proposals for improving cocoa farming co-operatives have been revealed in a new report ... Elsewhere, it highlights the need for the sector to ...

Fairtrade's New Cocoa Standard: Striking a balance between robust ...

Fairness for farmers is Fairtrade's DNA. The cocoa sector is broadly agreed that the burden of protecting human rights and the environment must ...

Fairtrade releases cocoa Living Income Progress Report

A new report from Fairtrade International has highlighted that cocoa farmers who were paid a 'living income reference price' earned, on average, 15% more.

Cocoa Impact Report - 2021 - Fairtrade America

Fairtrade's partnership with the corporate sector has generated around $3.2 million in Premium, supporting almost 440,000 cocoa farmers to ...

Fairtrade report shows farmers earn more with living income ...

Cocoa farmers who were paid a living income reference price earned on average approximately 15 percent more compared to government regulated farmgate prices.

Fairtrade launches 2023 annual report

Fairtrade reported on its first strategic priority of shifting the balance of power to farmers and workers, including developing pathways to ...

How Fairtrade's Train the Trainer Model Transforms Cocoa Farming

Fairtrade partners with small-scale cocoa farmers and the farming organizations they belong to in West Africa to improve their economic, social ...

Farmers earn more with Living Income Reference Price

The report highlighted several cocoa cooperatives in West Africa that organised and employed “labour brigades” that travel to members' farms and ...

Fairtrade 30th Anniversary report urges farmer pay, environment ...

The Fairtrade Foundation has renewed urgent calls to businesses and governments to help enhance farmer pay in key supply chains including ...

Enhancing cocoa farmer's livelihoods: ALDI's Fairtrade project in ...

Fairtrade enables the cooperative and its farmers to secure a guaranteed minimum price for their cocoa, along with an additional Fairtrade premium, the use of ...

ECOM's Smarter Cocoa Report 2022 - What is it and how can we ...

An example of farmer-focused activities we have been involved in is incentivizing tree adoption in Ghana. ECOM and The Hershey Company have been collaborating ...

Systemic solutions needed to tackle farmer poverty in cocoa

A new report from the Fairtrade Foundation and Mondelez International highlights that cocoa sustainability initiatives are failing to reach a significant ...

Latest Fairtrade cocoa report: Farmers investing in change

Report findings reveal that Fairtrade-certified cocoa farmer organizations chose to spend 36 percent of their Fairtrade premiums on projects to ...

How Fairtrade Impacts the West African Cocoa Industry

Cocoa farmers are terribly underpaid in West Africa. The majority of farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, where more than 60% of the world's ...

Living Incomes for Farmers Key to Ensuring Sustainability of Cocoa

New Fairtrade Foundation campaign calls on the UK government and companies to end 'shameful' exploitation of cocoa farmers by 2030, ...

Strong producer organisations are the foundation of a sustainable ...

As farmer populations age around the world, Fairtrade is working with producer communities to help develop the next generation of farmers and ...

9 tips on how to become more socially responsible in the cocoa sector

Use storytelling to educate consumers about the benefits of sustainable cocoa farming. You can create stories highlighting the social benefits ...

Effects of Fairtrade on farm household food security and living ...

Fairtrade can affect household living standards through different mechanisms (Fig. 1). Positive effects on crop incomes can be expected through higher output ...