Impact Studies in 2005
Straight from the cotton fields: project impact, learning and next steps
Product: Cotton
Organisation: Traidcraft, UK
Tel: (+ 44) 191 491 0591
Fax : (+ 44) 191 497 6562
Email : geoffb@traidcraft.org.uk
Internet: www.traidcraft.co.uk
Work: Impact analysis of project for smallholder
cotton farmers in Gujarat, rural India
Date: May 2005
The effect of Fair Trade on marginalized producers
Product: Spices from Kenya
Contact: Leonardo Becchetti
Email: becchetti@economia.uniroma2.it
Value Chain Analysis Cotton farmers and textile workers, Improving the access of low-income, disadvantaged producers to Fair Trade markets
Product: Cotton and textiles
Authors: Christine Gent and Peter Braithwaite
Website: www.ifat.org
Work: A study, commissioned by IFAT, FLO and EFTA to
make recommendations on how the position of cotton farmers and textile workers can be improved, by using value chain analysis, with special attention to ‘social values’. The overall purpose is to improve the understanding of Fair Trade’s social and economic context. Including recommendations on how Fair Trade practice can be improved and relationships with producers, consumers and other organisations
enhanced. 54 pages.
Date: July 2005
Value Chain Analysis Handicrafts
Product: Handicrafts, particularly basketry, wood, ceramics
and jewellery
Authors: Traidcraft Market Access Centre
Website: www.ifat.org
Work: This report has been produced by the Traidcraft
Market Access Centre, on behalf of the International Fair Trade Association (IFAT),
Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) and the European Fair Trade Association (EFTA) with the aim to improve the situation of low income handcraft producers in developing countries. The analysis looks at how poor producers are involved in fair and mainstream trade, the key activities of producers and buyers, the returns producers are receiving for their work and the obstacles to their increased income, profit and access to wider markets. Including recommendations on the way forward for working with handcraft producers and increasing their share of profits and access to wider markets.
Date: July 2005
Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in Mexico
Product: Coffee
Authors: Muriel Calo and Timothy A. Wise Institute: Global Development and Environment Institute,
USA
Tel: (+) 617 627 3530
Fax: (+) 617 627 2409
Email: GDAE@tufts.edu
Website: ase.tufts.edu/gdae
Work: After providing background on the worldwide coffee
crisis, the history of Mexican coffee production, and the growth and functioning of
the organic and Fair Trade markets, the authors analyze the organic and Fair Trade coffee markets in the context of market-based mechanisms designed to overcome market failures. In particular they assess how well such mechanisms allow produers of sustainable coffee to capture some of the value of their contributions to ecological integrity and consumer health, as transmitted through the organic and Fair Trade labels and their associated premiums. Based on case from Oaxaca.
Date: October 2005
Value Chain Analysis Rice – Each life starts with a little seed
Author: Corné van Dooren
Website: www.ifat.org
Work : This study was commissioned by IFAT, FLO and
EFTA with the aim to improve the situation of rice farmers in developing countries. Including recommendations on the way forward for working with rice farmers and increasing their share of profits and access to wider markets. 155 pages.
Date : November 2005
Value Chain Analysis Coffee – A fair share for smallholders
Product : Coffee
Author: Rob Slob
Website: www.ifat.org
Work : This study was commissioned by IFAT, FLO and
EFTA with the aim to improve the situation of coffee smallholders in the South. Including recommendations on the way forward for working with the coffee farmers and increasing their share of profits and access to wider markets. 54 pages.
Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua
Product: Coffee
Author : Karla Utting-Chamorro
Institute : Oxfam Great Britain – Development in Practice,
Volume 15
Work: The paper examines the effectiveness of Fair Trade
as a development tool and the extent of its contribution to the alleviation of poverty in coffee-producing regions in Nicaragua. 16 pages.
