Fairtrade America Impact Report 2019 – 2020
Fairtrade’s vision is a world in which all producers can enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods, fulfill their potential, and decide on their future.
Celebrating Our Collective Impact
Sustainable trade is fundamental to this approach, and we are proud to have partnered with companies in the United States to source Fairtrade certified ingredients. In this report, we share key indicators to assess our collective impact to support farmers, workers, and their communities.
While we, collectively, have achieved a lot of over the past year, our vision is ambitious and there is always more than we can do to extend our impact to more vulnerable and volatile markets. That is why Fairtrade is currently reviewing its Standards for bananas, coffee and cocoa underscoring solutions that contribute to achieving living wages and living incomes. Read our Living Income Progress Report here.
$1.4B was the estimated value of Fairtrade retail sales in 2020, a growth of over 18%.
201 brands licensed more than 6,000 Fairtrade products in the U.S.
$11M in Fairtrade Premiums were generated through commercial partner sales.
Fairtrade America's Response to COVID-19
Fairtrade has contributed toward $18 million in Producer Resilience and Relief funds to empower Fairtrade producer organizations to keep their communities safe and to continue to work towards long term economic recovery. Our producer networks have already distributed funds to more than 580 producer organizations and counting, benefitting 475,000 farmers.
