Fairtrade Bananas Facts & Figures: 2014 Monitoring & Evaluation Report, 6th Edition

MONITORING THE

SCOPE AND BENEFITS

OF FAIRTRADE Sixth Edition

Bananas

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Four countries

represent 92% of

all fairtrade

banana producer

groups

© Santiago Engelhardt

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96% of Fairtrade

certifiable volume

is concentrated in

South America and

the Caribbean

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76% of all

fairtrade bananas

come from 3

countries -

Dominican

Republic,

Colombia & Peru

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Smallscale

Farmers invested

33% of their

fairtrade premium

in human

resources &

administration

© James Rodriguez

Members of the administration of La Santa Cruz hold a meeting in the association’s headquarters. Fairtrade Premium investments play an important role in helping groups increase their ability to manage the organization and international contracts.

Workers invested

38% of the banana

premium in

housing

improvements

© Rogier Fokke

Workers at the Rosalba Zapata Cardona Corporación, a collaboration of six plantations, works to create better housing using the Fairtrade Premium.

All information contained in this presentation and more can be found in our report ‘Monitoring the Scope and Benefits of Fairtrade, Sixth Edition 2014’ at:www.fairtrade.net/impact-and-research.html