report
2017

Assessing coffee household income

by Fairtrade International, True Price
Assessment of household income of coffee farmers in seven origins to improve strategy, policy and Fairtrade's Minimum Price.
report
2015

Creating shared value in the rose supply chain

by True Price, Hivos
Exploring the business case of a living wage rose from Naivasha in Kenya to a Dutch florist.
project

East Africa Flower Industry

by FSI, Hivos, Fairtrade International, FairFlowers/FairPlants, GLWC

Promoting living wages for workers in the floriculture sector in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.

multi-stakeholder initiative

Ethical Tea Partnership

by Ethical Tea Partnership
The Ethical Tea Partnership runs a full range of programmes to help tea farmers improve their economic standing.
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. 

multi-stakeholder initiative

Global Coffee Platform

by Global Coffee Platform
The Global Coffee Platform is the leading facilitator of the coffee sector’s journey towards sustainability. They improve the livelihoods, ecosystems and resilience of coffee farming communities, with living income as one of their focus areas.
project
2016

Kenya Decent Work Programme

by ILO

The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) main instrument for cooperation to achieve decent and secure working conditions in Kenya.

report
2019

Living income for smallholders

by Wageningen University
This paper explores data to propose approaches that create significant impacts on the income earned by farmers, and towards protecting forests and biodiversity.
benchmark
2019

Living Wage Benchmark, Lake Naivasha, Kenya

by Global Living Wage Coalition
Living wage estimate for the Lake Naivasha area, a non-metropolitan urban area in Kenya, with a focus on flower farm workers.