For details on the state of the Australian & New Zealand market, go here.

Fairtrade markets - global figures - as of March 2005

(source: www.fairtrade.net/sites/impact/facts.html)

There are 531 producer organzations certified by FLO, representing over one million of farmers and workers, coming from over 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin  America. Including their dependents, five million people are affected.

667 registered traders, consisting of exporters, importers, processors and manufacturers, coming from 50 countries all over the world.

Between 2003 and 2004, Fairtrade labelled sales across the world grew by 56% to over 125,000 Metric Tones (MT), representing a fantastic growth.

Sales of certified Fairtrade products mean extra benefits for FLO certified producer organisations. The extra benefits for coffee farmers, for instance, during 2003, taking the World market price as defined for Arabica by the NY - and for Robusta by the London stock exchange compared with the Fairtrade minimum price and premium, amounts to over 22 million US$.