Seventh edition February 2016

Monitoring the scope and benefits of fairtrade

cotton

© Suzanne Lee/Max Havelaar-Foundation (Switzerland)

FAIRTRADE Cotton producer REGIONS

Of the 22 cotton producer organizations, 13 are small producer organizations with a concentration in Western Africa, and nine are contract production organizations in India

© Stefan Lechner / Fairtrade Austria

Two buyers from Switzerland committed to support Fairtrade cotton producers through the Fairtrade Sourcing Program (FSP) with an initial commitment to purchase 69 MT of Fairtrade cotton lint

For more information about the Fairtrade Sourcing

Programs, and how they are helping farmers, visit

http://www.fairtrade.net/about-fairtrade/fairtrade-

sourcing-programs.html © Frédéric Raevens / Max Havelaar Belgium

Fairtrade cotton Sourcing Programs

Fairtrade cotton Premium usage

About 41% of the Fairtrade Premium was invested in community projects for education, healthcare and developing infrastructure.

A further 34% of Fairtrade Premium was used to supply direct services to the cotton farmers. Of this, the majority was used to provide tools and inputs.

© Suzanne Lee / Max Havelaar-Foundation (Switzerland)

Fairtrade cotton producers across several countries reported weather patterns becoming increasingly unstable as a result of climate change, which had adverse effects on cotton production

© Didier Gentilhomme / Fairtrade International, FLO-CERT GmbH

fairtrade cotton production challenges

Want to know more?

All information contained in this

presentation and summaries of impact

research can be found in our report

‘Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of

Fairtrade, Seventh Edition 2015’ at:

www.fairtrade.net/impact-and-research.html