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

Living Wage Advocacy Initiative

by World Banana Forum, Fairtrade International, IDH
Pilot project in Ecuador and Ghana to establish living wage benchmarks that can be used for wage negotiations and minimum wage-setting interventions in the banana sector of each country.
benchmark
2020

Living Wage Benchmark, Rural Ecuador

by Global Living Wage Coalition
Living wage estimate for the Southern coastal region of Ecuador, focussing on the banana sector.
report
2019

Monitoring Fairtrade's Scope and Benefits-Flower Sector

by Fairtrade International

A report by Fairtrade International focused on the flower sector, which monitors the impact of the Fairtrade certification.

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
2017

The external costs of banana production

by Fairtrade International, True Price, Truecost

Study on the negative effects of banana production on the environment and society in the main bananas producing countries to capture these external costs in the price.

project

The other bar

by UNDP, FairChain Foundation
The Other Bar is an experiment in radical equality. It is produced at source, in Ecuador, at an independently-owned factory to increase impact. It ensures farmers are paid prices that meet real income needs.
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.