Monitoring the scopeand benefits of Fairtrade
MONITORING REPORT 15TH EDITION

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

2About Fairtrade

About this report

Fairtrade International is a nonprofit, multi-stakeholder associationthat promotes fairer conditions forinternational trade, empowers smallscale farmers and workers, and fosters
sustainable livelihoods.

Fairtrade International publishes
annual data on the scope and impact ofFairtrade for farmers, workers and theircommunities. This report represents
an overview of select monitoring datafrom 2022 unless otherwise indicated.
A description of the data sources used
for this report is on page 23. Additional
product-specific data can be found atwww.fairtrade.net/impact

Fairtrade International develops
and maintains the internationallyagreed Fairtrade Standards, owns theFAIRTRADE Mark, and supports theinternational Fairtrade system. Threeregional Fairtrade producer networks
representing 2 million farmers andworkers co-own the international
Fairtrade system, which also includes
the independent certification body
FLOCERT, and Fairtrade organisations
in more than 25 countries that
promote Fairtrade to business andconsumers. For more information,
visit www.fairtrade.net

Cover image:
Ms Skuntala andMs Bewla work ona tea plantation ofChamong Tea Exports
Pvt. Ltd. in India.
This page: A worker
processes Fairtradecertified bananas at
APBOSMAM in Peru.

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

3More than

2 million

farmers & workers
in Fairtrade certified
producer organisations

21% 44% in Fairtradeof farmers
of workers
are women
1,910

Fairtrade certified producer organisations
in 68 countries

Of all Fairtrade farmers
46% produce cof fee
26% produce cocoa
19% produce tea

Of all Fairtrade workers
37% produce flowers & plants
29% produce tea
14% bananas

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEW€222.8 million
in Fairtrade
Premium paid toproducers in 2022,+10% over 2021

MONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

Almosttwo thirdsof Fairtrade cof fee
and bananas sold arealso organic

Workers on Fairtrade certified plantations

Small-scale
producerorganisations

invested 36%of their Fairtrade Premium into improving
production and farming practices and
23% in financial benefits for farmers

allocated 75%to social investments and 15% to financial
benefits for workers and families

4FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONNUMBER OF FAIRTRADE CERTIFIED PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS 2018-2022

16%

2018

82%

276

1,405

2%
2618%

201981%

321

1,478

1%

2318%

2020

81%

336

1,521

1%

2318%

2021

81%

352

1,558

1%

2018%

2022

81%

347

1,539

1%
024400Hired labour organisations

800

1,200

Contract production organisations

1,600

2,000

Small-scale producer organisations

5FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONREGIONAL GROWTH IN THE NUMBER OF FAIRTRADE CERTIFIED PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS 2018-2022

2,000

1,822
1,600

1,707

+6.7%

+6.8%

1,930

1,880

SINCE 2018

1,910

+2.7%

+3.2%

SINCE 2019

SINCE 2020-1%

SINCE 2021

SINCE 2017

1,200

1,000843

970

950906800634596

928

6846606274000303

282268

2018

Asia and the Pacific

2019

300

2020

Africa and the Middle East

29820212022

Latin America and the CaribbeanTotal6FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONFAIRTRADE PRODUCER COUNTRIES BY NUMBER OF CERTIFIED PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS 2022

7. Dominican Republic
75 POs
9. Mexico
65 POs

4. India
114 POs

8. Honduras
71 POs
3. Colombia
152 POs6. Ecuador
91 POs
2. Peru
259 POs
1. Côte d’Ivoire
268 POs

10. Brazil
53 POs

5. Kenya
100 POs

Latin America
and theCaribbean

Africaand theMiddle East

49%

36%16%

928 producer
organisations in
21 countries

684 producer
organisations in
29 countries

298 producer
organisations in
18 countries

Asia
and thePacific

7FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONNUMBERNUMBEROF OF
FAIRTRADE
FAIRTRADE
FARMERSFARMERS
AND
AND
WORKERS
WORKERS2018-2022
2022

10%

2018

178,051

2019

174,1362020

178,795

90%

1,605,010

9%

91%

1,716,245

9%

91%

1,772,368

9%

2021

91%

181,862

1,846,787

10%

2022

90%

197,118

0200,000

Workers

1,848,268

400,000

Farmers

600,000

800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 1,400,000 1,600,000 1,800,000 2,000,000 2,200,000

8FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONREGIONAL GROWTH IN THE NUMBER OF FAIRTRADE FARMERS AND WORKERS 2020-2022+0.8%

2,200,000
2,000,000
1,800,000+4.2%

1,600,000
1,400,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
800,000
600,000

-8.3%

-3.9%

400,000
200,000
02020 2021 2022

2020 2021 2022

2020 2021 2022

2020 2021 2022

Latin America andthe Caribbean

Africa andthe Middle East

Asia andthe Pacific

Total

Percentage change 2021-2022

9FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

10DISTRIBUTION OF FAIRTRADE FARMERS AND WORKERS 202217%

Percentage
of all farmers

72%

Percentage
of all farmers

12%

Percentage
of all farmers

15%

Percentage
of all workers

61%

Percentage
of all workers

23%

Percentage
of all workers

16%

Percentage
of total

71%

Percentage
of total

13%

Percentage
of total

Latin American & the Caribbean

Africa & the Middle East

Asia & the Pacific

Fairtrade farmers

310,010

1,324,435

213,823

1,848,268

Workers on Fairtrade plantations

30,196

120,830

46,092

197,118

340,206

1,445,265

259,915

2,045,386

TotalTotal

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

11NUMBER OF FAIRTRADE FARMERS AND WORKERS BY PRODUCT 2022

CoffeeTea

Cocoa

Farmers

845,174

Farmers

351,499

Farmers

471,518

Workers–Workers

57,229Workers–TotalPercentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

845,174

41%

Flowers and plants

Total
Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

408,728

20%

Cane sugar

Total
Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

457,347

22%

Seed cotton

Farmers-Farmers

44,955Farmers

44,477

Workers

73,664

Workers–Workers–Total73,664

Total

Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

4%Bananas

Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

49,7092%

Other products

Total
Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

44,4772%All products

Farmers

8,638

Farmers

82,007

Farmers

1,848,268

Workers

27,066

Workers

39,159Workers

197,118

Total

35,704

Total

121,166

Total

Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

2%

Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

6%

Percentage of all Fairtrade farmers & workers

2,045,386

100%

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONWOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN FAIRTRADE 2022

Number of female and male farmers in small-scale producer organisations
FemaleAfrica andthe Middle East

21%

Latin America
24%
and the Caribbean

Asia andthe Pacific

Male

79%

76%

87%
13%
0300,000

600,000

900,000

1,200,000

1,500,000

Number of female and male workers in hired labour organisations
FemaleAfrica andthe Middle East

45%

Latin America
22%
and the Caribbean

Asia andthe Pacific

78%

58%
0Male

55%

30,00042%
60,00090,000120,000

150,000

12FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

13PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN FAIRTRADE FARMERS AND WORKERS BY PRODUCT 2022

Small-scale producer organisations

Hired labour organisations

Product

Percentage of women farmers

Product

Percentage of women workers

Cereals

60%

Fruit juices

74%

Oilseeds & oleaginous fruit

41%

Flowers & plants

54%

Dried fruit

35%

Tea

52%

Wine grapes

34%

Vegetables

51%

Tea

26%

Dried fruit

35%

Bananas23%

Fresh fruit

34%

Herbs, herbal teas & spices

23%

Wine grapes

32%

Coffee21%

Herbs, herbal teas & spices

28%

Fresh fruit

20%

Bananas16%Fruit juices

20%

Sportsballs

14%

Cane sugar

19%Grand Total

44%

Rice

19%

Cocoa

17%

Nuts

16%

Vegetables

14%

Honey

12%

Gold & associated precious metals

10%

Cotton

9%

Total

21%

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONTOTAL PRODUCTION OF FAIRTRADE CERTIFIED PRODUCTS 2022 (METRIC TONNES*)*EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

Bananas1,484,649

Cocoa
712,978

Coffee707,302

Fresh fruit
636,527

Cane sugar
541,059

Tea
181,312Wine grapes
162,486

Vegetables
77,182

Rice75,150Oilseeds &oleaginous fruit
73,749Herbs, herbal teas& spices
72,583

Seed cotton
61,862

Flowers & plants*
5,276,189,118 stems

Nuts
45,271

Honey
8,989

Gold & associated precious metals*
1,428 kg

Dried fruit
4,021

Cereals
3,412Sportsballs*
158,990 items

Fruit juices& pulp814

FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONFAIRTRADE SALES VOLUMES REPORTED BY PRODUCT 2020-2022

Product2020

2021

2022

Unit

Banana750,636755,921*730,176

MTCane sugar

121,567*

183,885*

169,042

MTCocoa

181,913*

241,455

232,847

MTCoffee

228,961*

222,328

231,188

MTCotton

12,511

11,590*12,258

MT

Tea

8,641

7,851*

7,502

MT

Dried fruit

166

160

315

MT

Fresh fruit

113,549

103,258

102,698

MT

Fruit juices and pulp

2,620

287

1,169

MT

Herbs, herbal teas & spices

8,432

8,010

7,886

MT

MT = metric tonnes

Honey

4,020

2,486

2,883

MT

Figures for cotton
are in cotton lint

Nuts

14,081

17,756

18,407

MT

Oilseeds and Oleaginous fruit

20,344

14,60525,962

MT

Rice

9,562

9,756

11,918MT

Wine grapes

45,26940,568

52,877

MTVegetables

3,160

5,315

9,545

MTCereals

3,679

1,382

1,646

MT

950,157,703

1,149,377,680

952,236,351

Stems

186,226

142,546

156,604

Items

112

27313

kg

Flowers and Plants
Sportsballs
Gold & associated Precious Metals*Indicates that figures
have been updated toreflect corrections or
adjustments since thelast publication, andwhich changed thepreviously reported
values by more than
one percent.

15FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONFAIRTRADE ORGANIC SALES VOLUMES REPORTED FOR TOP 6 PRODUCTS 2022 (METRIC TONNES)

16%

63%

64%

BananasConventional
Organic

Cocoa
Conventional

Organic

CoffeeConventional
Organic

271,260 MT

194,818 MT

38,029 MT

84,219 MT

458,916 MT

146,969 MT

20%
39%
50%

Cane sugar
Conventional
Organic

CottonConventional

Organic

Tea
Conventional

Organic

135,572 MT

6,086 MT

6,171 MT

4,600 MT2,902 MT

33,470 MT

16FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

17TOTAL AREA OF CULTIVATION OF FAIRTRADE PRODUCTS 2022 (HECTARES)

21345679108131

Cocoa
1,538,3312Coffee
1,019,160

3

Tea
137,432

4

Cane sugar
108,765

5

Seed cotton
71,897

6

Banana50,347

7Herbs, herbal teas & spices
38,5588Fresh fruit
38,393

9

Rice27,53310

Oilseeds & oleaginous fruit
18,01511

Wine grapes
12,819

12

Vegetables
5,886

13

Dried fruit
5,208

14

Cereals
4,960

15

Flowers & plants
3,191

12

1114

Land area is not applicable to the following products:
pulp, gold, honey, nuts and sportsballs. Fruit juices are notincluded because of limited data for this metric.

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FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONFAIRTRADE PREMIUM GENERATED BY PRODUCT 2022

17%Bananas€38,156,345

5%Cane sugar€10,306,045

24%Cocoa€52,805,001

3%Flowers & plants€7,585,518

2%
Tea€4,123,010

2%Fresh fruit€3,627,330

43%
Coffee€95,587,106

4% Other
Herbs, herbal teas & spices €2,472,340
Cotton €1,771,815
Wine grapes €1,599,558
Nuts €1,234,976
Vegetables €751,537
Oilseeds & oleaginous fruit €748,154
Rice €592,792

Gold & associated Precious Metals €498,854
Honey €497,515
Cereals €232,144
Dried fruit €115,570
Sportsballs €58,260
Fruit Juices & pulp €58,178

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FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITIONFAIRTRADE PREMIUM GENERATED BY TYPE OF PRODUCER ORGANISATION AND REGION 2022

62%

31%

7%

Latin American & the Caribbean

Africa & the Middle East

Asia & the Pacific€138.7 million€69.3 million€14.8 million

Type of PO

Premium

Total Premium

SPO€187.8m

HLO€33.1m€222.8 million

Contract production€1.9m

19FAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION20USE OF FAIRTRADE PREMIUM BY SMALL-SCALE PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS 2022
36%

1% Financial services for workers & their families

Production

1% Education services for members & their families

Business & organisational development 28%

1% Health services for members & their families
1% Other services for members
1% Social and economic services for communities

Financial benefits

23%

Social investment

9%

Support for workers

2%

Environmental investment

1%

2% Community infrastructure
2% Education services for communities
2% Health services for communities
25% Human resources and administration
3% Training and capacity building of Producer
Organization board and committees
3% Farmer training in agriculturalor business practices
4% Implementation of on-farm best practices

1% Environmental services for communities

12% Provision of agricultural tools and inputs
18% Facilities and infrastructure
within the organisation

21% Payments to members and their families

2% Credit and financial services
for members and their families

Values may not add up to 100 percent due to roundingFAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION21USE OF FAIRTRADE PREMIUM BY HIRED LABOUR ORGANISATIONS 2022

1% Environmental services for communities
2% Trainings for workers

Social investment

75%

Financial benefits

15%Training & empowerment of workers

8%Environmental investment

1%

Miscellaneous

1%

6% Premium Committee & otherrelated committee running costs
2% Health services for communities
2% Social & economic services for communities
3% Community infrastructure
4% Education services for communities

8% Credit & financial services
for workers & their families
7% Payments to workers & their families
1% Miscellaneous

7% Health services for workers & their families
23% Other services for workers & their families
14% Investment in worker housing

20% Education services forworkers & their families

Values may not add up to 100 percent due to roundingFAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

22FAIRTRADE PREMIUM EXPENDITURE CONTRIBUTING TO THE UN’s SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

SDG2

SDG3

56%

4%

SDG46%SDG1

SDG822%8%

SDG151%This graph shows the proportion of Fairtrade Premium that producers have chosen to spend on projectsrelated to one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You can find additional information at:www.fairtrade.net/impact/fairtrade-premium-spending-by-sdg

SDG113%

Values may not add up to 100 percent due to roundingFAIRTR ADE SCOPE AND BENEFITS: OVERVIEWMONITORING REPORT 15 TH EDITION

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About the data in this report
The monitoring data in this report
come from two sources: Fairtrace andCODImpact.
Fairtrace stores all transactions in agiven year from Fairtrade Premium
payers. Fairtrade Premium generatedand sales volumes for the top sevenproducts (bananas, cocoa, coffee,cotton, flowers and plants, sugar andtea) are reported through Fairtrace.
The CODImpact monitoring dataset
contains data collected from producer
organisations during audits. Not all
producer organisations are audited
in a given year, in which case thedata are completed using the latest
available record. CODImpact is thedata source for production volume,area of cultivation, number of farmers
and workers, and Fairtrade Premiumuse. It is also the source of Fairtradesales and Premium data for all otherproducts not in Fairtrace.

The data have been extensively checkedand cleaned. However, in a monitoring
project of this magnitude there may besome areas of inaccuracy, such as:•There may be missing informationfrom Fairtrade certified producerorganisations that is not taken into
account because of quality.

•There may be missing information
in some questionnaires fromcertified producer organisations
that was not reported by auditors.

•There may be wrong data or datathat were not validated.

•Figures are subject to change. Data
may change in the future after
receiving new reports or as a resultof continuous data quality checks.

The number of certified organisations
is counted as the number of producer
organisations at the end of thecalendar year with any of the following
certification statuses: certified,suspended or permission to trade.

Under the terms of confidentiality
agreements with Fairtrade certified
producer organisations, data may
only be publicly reported in aggregateform. Displaying the data is restricted
to not in any way expose sensitive
information belonging to a single
producer organisation, Fairtrade
Premium payer or trader. Where
there are fewer than three Fairtradecertified producer organisations in acountry, and market-sensitive businessinformation could be deduced, we do
not report aggregated data on theproducer organisations.
Fruit juice, pulp, and dried fruit aresecondary products of fresh fruit after
processing. Reporting can fluctuatefrom year to year depending on theform in which the producers actuallysell the product in a given year.

Disclaimer
Fairtrade International is not
responsible for the accuracyof the data. The report has
been compiled to the best of
our knowledge and is provided
for informational purposes
only. Fairtrade International
reserves the right to update
the monitoring data as new
information becomes available.
Data quality checks are
performed continuously, thus
the data presented can change
in future reports. The data areprovided ‘as is’ and no warrantyof any kind is given for theaccuracy and reliability of thedata. Fairtrade International will
not be liable for any claims ordamages related to the quality
and completeness of the data, as
far as it is permitted under law.

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