HOMEPAGE

Rodolfo Peña Alba is managing director of Café Orgánico Marcala (COMSA), a coffee cooperative in Marcala, Honduras.
© Santiago Engelhardt / TransFair e.V.

 

CHALLENGING OUR WORLD

Marike de Peña is the Fairtrade International Board Chair, CLAC Board Chair, and director and co-founder of Banelino – a banana cooperative in the Dominican Republic.
© Javier Luna / Fairtrade International

 

GROWING BETTER FUTURES

A producer at Small Organic Farmers’ Association (SOFA) tends young plants. SOFA is an organic, Fairtrade certified small producer organization for high quality tea and spices in Sri Lanka. The cooperative won the Fairtrade Award for the Small Producer Organization of the Year 2016.
© Swedish Trading Audio Visual (PVT) Ltd/ Fairtrade International

Sobur is a coffee farmer and member of Koperasi Baithul Qiradh Baburrayyan (KBQB), a coffee cooperative in Indonesia.
© Nathalie Bertrams

 

FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Oti Manu Restford, with his family outside his home. Oti Manu is a cocoa farmer at Asunafo North Municipal Co-operative Cocoa Farmers and Marketing Union Limited (CCP), a Fairtrade certified cocoa cooperative in Ghana.
© Kate Fishpool / Fairtrade Foundation

Mabel Matetsu is the foreman at VREL – Volta River Estates Ltd, a Fairtrade certified banana plantation in Ghana. Mabel is the first woman to hold this post.
© Linus Hallgren / Fairtrade Sweden

 

TACKLING TOUGH OBSTACLES

Shanti Rai is a tea plucker at Makaibari Tea Estate, a Fairtrade certified tea plantation in India.
© Luca Rinaldini

Brou Konan Franck is a cocoa farmer in West Africa. Brou is a Youth Leader in the It Takes a Village to Protect a Child’ project.
© Max Havelaar Netherlands

Fidelina Zaldaña is a coffee farmer in El Salvador. Fidelina attended the ‘Leadership Training & Women’s Empowerment School’ implemented by CLAC.
© Evelyn Araniva / CLAC

Workers growing young plants at Red Fox Ethiopia PLC, a Fairtrade certified plantation in Ethiopia.
© Katharina Schwab / TransFair e.V.

 

BUILDING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

Rosario Cabrera works at the Miguel Rosado packing plant – an affiliate of ASOARAC, Hatillo Palma, a Fairtrade certified banana cooperative in the Dominican Republic.
 © James Rodriguez

 

PROTESTING AND PROPOSING

Fairtrade staff member, Konan Kouassi, with cocoa producers from Kapatchiva, member of ECOOKIM – a Fairtrade certified cocoa cooperative in Blaisekro Sud, Côte d’Ivoire.
© Éric St-Pierre

 

POWER IN PARTNERSHIP

Phawadee Suphansai, planting rice-crops in Thailand. Phawadee is a member of Organic Jasmine Rice Producer Group (OJRPG), a Fairtrade certified small producer organization.
© Santiago Engelhardt / TransFair e.V.

 

STRONGER AS A SYSTEM

James Kinne, affectionately known as Papa Kinne, sorts coffee beans with members of Highland Organic Agriculture Cooperative (HOAC). James’ son, Daniel Kinne, is the chairperson of HOAC, the Pacific’s oldest Fairtrade certified organization producing coffee.
© Vanessa Kerton / Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand

Winners of the 2016 Fairtrade Awards
© Frank Nürnberger / TransFair e.V.

 

FAIRTRADE INTERNATIONAL’S FINANCIALS

At Coopérative Agricole NZRAMA de N’DOUCI (CANN)’s cocoa warehouse in NDouci. CANN is Fairtrade certified cocoa cooperative in Côte d’Ivoire.
© Kristina Eggers / Fairtrade Österreich

 

ABOUT FAIRTRADE

The members of Organic Jasmine Rice Producer Group (OJRPG) produce the original Hom Mali Rice, more commonly known as perfumed rice. ORPG is a Fairtrade certified small producer organization in Thailand.
 © Santiago Engelhardt / TransFair e.V.

 

PHOTO CREDITS

Jesús and Cecilia are Fairtrade coffee producers at Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales in Colombia.
 © Sean Hawkey / Max Havelaar Switzerland

 

ADDITIONAL NOTES

Cocoa pods at Coopérative Agricole NZRAMA de N’DOUCI (CANN), a Fairtrade certified cocoa cooperative in Côte d’Ivoire.
© Marco Garofalo