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.
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.

benchmark
2019

Living wage Benchmark, rural Costa Rica

by Global Living Wage Coalition

Living wage estimate for rural Costa Rica, in Limón and Heredia Provinces, focussing on the banana industry.

project
2018

Measuring Impact and Testing Living Wage

by Rainforest Alliance, IDH, Fyffes, Global Living Wage Coalition
Working to create living wage benchmark studies in main banana regions of Belize and Costa Rica to facilitate dialogue on wages and shared value in the banana sector and beyond.
report
2016

Sweet fruit, bitter truth

by Oxfam Germany
This investigation shows the dramatic social and ecological cost of tropical fruit farming, based on the examples of the pineapple industry in Costa Rica and the banana industry in Ecuador.
report
2015

Tracking living and minimum wages

by World banana Forum
A report commissioned by the World bananas Forum with living and minimum wage information for 9 bananas producing countries.
benchmark
2021

Updated Living Wage, Rural Costa Rica

by GLWC

Update in the living wage estimate for rural Costa Rica in Limón and Heredia Provinces, focussing on the banana industry.