project
2020

A Big Step Towards Living Wages for Banana Workers

by Fairtrade International

Fairtrade's new base wage for banana workers in certified plantations comes closer to closing the living wage gap.

organisation

Banana Link

by Banana Link
UK-based non-profit cooperative working for a fair and sustainable trade in bananas and pineapples. They raise awareness about the poor living and working conditions faced by plantation workers and small producers across Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.
project

Banana workers in Guatemala

by Banana Link, SITRABI
A collaboration supporting SITRABI, a banana workers' union in Guatemala, to empower banana plantation workers, improve working conditions and set decent wages.
multi-stakeholder initiative

Bananas in Costa Rica and Belize

by GLWC, Fyffes, IDH, Rainforest Alliance

This multi-stakeholder project explores living wage gaps, among other objectives, through 8 pilot farms in Belize and Costa Rica.

multi-stakeholder initiative

Bananas Living Wage Commitment

by IDH, Albert Heijn, Superunie, Boni, Boon, Coop, Deen, Hoogvliet, Jan Linders, Jumbo, Plus, Poiesz, Sligro, Spar, Vomar, Central Bureau for Food Trade
As a part of the IMVO covenant, Dutch retailers commit to achieving living wages for banana production workers. They aim to reduce the gap between current and living wages for their entire banana assortment by at least 75% within five years.
report
2019

Baseline Study on Certified Bananas

by Rainforest Alliance, IDH
Evaluation of social and environmental practices on Rainforest Alliance Certified™ bananas farms in Costa Rica and Belize. Workers’ wages and benefits were compared to the living wage benchmark.
report
2022

Exploring Future Options to Attain a Living Income From Smallholder Farming in the East African Highlands

by Wageningen University; International Livestock Research Institute; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; World Bank

What Farm Size Sustains a Living? New scenarios show that increasing farm area and/or intensifying production is required for smallholder farmers to attain a living income from farming. The text explore how these changes would require considerable capital and labor investment, as well as land reform and alternative off-farm employment options for those who exit farming. 

report
2016

Fairtrade certification in bananas hired labour

by Wageningen University
Looks at the impact of Fairtrade certification on workers in the bananas hired labour.
2023

Gender Pay Gap study in the Colombian banana sector

by Anker Research Institute

The Anker Research Institute’s Gender Pay Gap study in the Colombian banana sector is the first of five to pilot the Institute’s methodology for measuring gender pay gaps at the workplace level.