Fair Trade Australia Booklet

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What is Fair Trade

Why Fair Trade

Fair Trade is a movement: a socially innovative response to market failure – the failure of the traditional trade system to incorporate fair access to markets, wage justice and environmental standards.

The benefits of international trade are not shared fairly by everyone in the world. Small producers have limited access to market and price information.

The origins of the Fair Trade movement can be traced back 50 years where, rooted in trade justice and human solidarity, it established alternative methods of supplying products with a shared understanding of fairness and trading partnerships.

Fair Trade products (craft and commodities) allows us, as consumers, to support trade justice through our purchasing choices.

As a result, they are often dependent on middlemen and receive smaller returns for their work. Many plantation and factory workers endure low pay, unsafe working environments and poor living conditions.

Fair Trade promotes trade equality and justice.

From producer through to consumer -- it is about ensuring the choices we make have a positive impact on our lives, the lives of others and the environment.

Fair Trade . Org TWITTER Fta.org is the home for the Australian & New Zealand Fair Trade organization. Our site is designed to promote Fair Trade and the discussion about working standards world wide. At the FTA we have a strong social media presence and believe that this is the way to expand the Fair Trade mentality world wide.

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BIGGEST INDUSTRIES.

Cotton

Sugar

Tea

We have started reporting cotton volumes in lint, which makes our figures much more accurate and useful. We will soon be launching our new cotton model, which will allow significant growth in large mainstream markets from 2013 onwards.

As sugar is an ingredient in so many different Fairtrade products, the actual sales figure is probably much higher than indicated. Market share of bagged sugar will reach 42 percent in the UK in 2012 and Tate & Lyle has become the world’s biggest Fairtrade Premium payer.

Fairtrade tea continued to experience healthy growth. Switches by supermarkets in the UK and the Netherlands were the main drivers. There’s also increasing interest in herbal teas such as rooibos.

97 percent of Fairtrade cotton comes from India and West & Central Africa.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to cotton producers in 2011: € 1.1 million.

80 percent of Fairtrade sugar comes from Africa’s Least Developed countries, where sugar is often one of the most important sources of income.

About 70 percent of Fairtrade tea comes from East Africa.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to tea producers in 2011: € 4.6 million.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to sugar producers in 2011: € 7.4 million.

Bananas

Cocoa

Coffee

Sales grew well in emerging markets such as Australia and New Zealand and remained stable in mature ones such as Switzerland, where market share has reached 55 percent. Worldwide a number of retailers have made 100 percent switches.

Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru and Ecuador are the main producing countries.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to banana producers in 2011: € 13.9 million.

Existing cocoa partners are increasing their commitments to Fairtrade and we are forming partnerships with new ones. The Cadbury Dairy Milk launch in South Africa and the new collaboration with Mars were two of the highlights.

Growth has continued strongly across continental Europe, particularly in the out of home sector (cafés, restaurants and public procurement).

The majority of Fairtrade cocoa comes from West Africa, but we also have many new producer groups for speciality cocoa in Latin America.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to cocoa producers in 2011: € 6.9 million

Latin America is the main source of Fairtrade coffee. However, around half of new applicants are from Africa and Asia.

In our 2011 coffee standard review we doubled the Premium to 20 USD cents/lb.

Estimated Fairtrade Premium paid to coffee producers in 2011: € 28.9 million

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PRODUCER COUNTRIES

Meet the Fairtrade Farmers Buying Fairtrade Certified products makes a real difference for the Fairtrade farmers and workers in developing countries. Fairtrade means a better future for producers, workers, their families and communities in these countries.

In addition to providing a fair and stable price for their products, Fairtrade is helping farmers, workers and their

Latin America

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communities build better roads, access health care and send their kids to school. Fairtrade also enables them to grow and develop their businesses ensuring they can improve life for their families and communities well into

Africa

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the future.

To learn more about the real impact Fairtrade is having on farmers’ lives in developing countries visit our partners websites Fairtrade International and the

Asia

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Fairtrade Foundation.

LATIN AMERICA AFRICA THAILAND

PAPUA NEW-GUINEA CHINA BURMA

TOTAL 991 WORLDWIDE

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Membership fees:

Global resources:

As a membership association, Fairtrade International receives membership fees from the national labelling initiatives. The membership fee is unrestricted funding and is calculated as a percentage of the licence fee income of each labelling initiative.

This unit develops cost effective central services for areas such as HR finance and IT, to ensure the best use of Fairtrade’s resources.

Direct producer services: This comprises the Producer Services and Relations unit, funding of the Producer Networks, the Producer Certification Fund, and specific producer services funded by funding partners (such as Irish Aid’s funding of our producer support in Central America).

Market services: This includes managing global accounts, our work in new markets, brand management and communications.

Pass-through funding: As part of our agreement with DFID, a proportion of the grants we receive from them goes directly to funding Fairtrade Foundation UK’s work.

Grants: We received grants totalling €7.1 million from our many funding partners. An amount of €1.3 million is restricted funding: these funds can only be used for specific projects approved by the funding partner. The remaining €5.8 million is unrestricted funding.

FAIRTRADE FINANCIAL.

5%

50% Where the money goes

37%

Unlike other charities and organisations we are very are proud of and like to share with you our figures.

Membership Fees Grants -Restricted Grants -Unrestricted Interests & other Income

8% Income

The summarized key financial figures outlined in these two graphs have been extracted from internal management reports and from the 2012 audited financial statements.

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50% 5% 37% 8%

11%

6% 16%

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47% Direct producer services 11% Pass- through funding 6% Standard-setting and pricing 16% Standard and policy 6% Market services 8% Governance 6% Global resources

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