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Fair-trade is a unique approach to responsible business that aims to help poor producers in developing countries to access and get fair prices in Northern markets.

NRET has worked with fair-trade organisations and their producers on a range of commodities to understand the social impact and economic viability of fair-trade systems. It is also working with fair-trade organisations to improve monitoring and evaluation systems.

To date the commodities covered are cocoa, brazil nuts, coffee, cotton and bananas. Work is being carried out in Ghana, Ecuador, Peru, Uganda and Tanzania.

You can obtain more information on particular pieces of work by clicking on any of the following:

• Economic analysis of fair-trade and conventional trade in Ecuadorian cocoa (download the report)

• The social impact of fair-trade and conventional trade in Ecuadorian cocoa (download the report)

• Economic analysis of fair-trade and conventional trade in Peruvian brazil nuts (download the report)
• The social impact of fair-trade and conventional trade in Peruvian brazil nuts (download the report)

• Overview of fair-trade (contact NRET)
• The social impact of fair-trade bananas from Ghana (download the report)
• Desk study for DFID on the potential for organic and fair-trade bananas from the Caribbean (contact NRET to obtain the report)
• The social impact of fair-trade cotton from Uganda (download the report)