Climate and Development Days International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

1. Climate and Development Days International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Cancun, 4-5 November 2010 Fairtrade and Climate Change

2. Fairtrade Labelling Organisations Vision: A world in which all producers can enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods, fulfill their potential and decide on their future. Mission: to connect disadvantaged producers and consumers, promote fairer trading conditions and empower producers to combat poverty, strengthen their position and take more control over their lives

3. Who are we? A global organisation: • Headquarters in Bonn, Germany • Regional offices in producer countries What we do: • Set standards and prices • Through FLO-CERT, certify producers • Build relations with partners • Lobbying and advocacy Owned by key stakeholders: • Producers in the global south are co-owners of the organisation • Licensing Initiatives (mostly in the global north) also co-own • Democratic governance

4. Fairtrade goals Making Trade Fair: • Fair trading relations • Economically sustainable operations Empowerment: • Personal • Structure • Relations Sustainable livelihoods: • Improved income • Decent working and improved living conditions • Sustainable ecosystems

5. Fairtrade Principles • Born from the imbalance of power in trading relationships and instability of markets. • Benefits small-scale farmers & organized workers • Stable prices • Fairtrade Premium • Contracts & pre-financing • Labour rights & democracy • Environmental protection

6. Fairtrade in Action • 1.2 million small-scale farmers and workers from 827 organizations in 60 countries benefit (2009) • Tens of millions of Euros in Fairtrade Premium each year • Invested in business, production, community infrastructure, career development, education

7. Product scope • Over27 000 product linesavailable around the world • coffee • tea • sugar • cocoa • cotton • wine • sports balls • fruit • fruit juices • herbs, spices • nuts • grains, pulses, and oilseeds

8. Producer Voice and Capacity • Central focus on supporting farmers and workers improve the quality of their lives and take more control over their futures • Training & advocacy in producer communities • Facilitating direct, efficient supply chains producer to consumer • Producer representatives in Fairtrade governance

9. Fairtrade’s Climate Change Strategy

12. Climate Change and Fairtrade • Climate change is not fair – countries in the South have contributed the least to this growing problem and are the most impacted • Agricultural production in the South is increasingly affected by climate change. • As climate change effects continue to rise, producers’ secure and sustainable livelihoods are increasingly at risk.

13. Fairtrade’s Climate Change Strategy: Strategic Priorities • To enable disadvantaged producers to be prepared to face climate change challenges • Support producers to adapt to climate change challenges so that they enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods • Support producers to reduce their impacts on climate change • To position Fairtrade as an important tool for addressing climate change challenges • Reduce Fairtrade’s (FLO e.V., FLO-CERT, Licensing Initiatives) impact on climate change • Advocate for Fairtrade as a valid tool to face climate change challenges at a policy level and promote climate change consumer awareness so that consumers continue to make informed decisions

14. Major Components of the Strategy

15. Components of the Strategy

16. Some of the findings • Flowering too early or not as much • Harvest times have changed • Increase in pests and diseases • Storms are damaging crops more frequently • Lower production levels • Regions that are particularly vulnerable are island states and lowlands • Four of six key Fairtrade crops are at higher risk (coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas)

17. Timeline

18. Methodology Highlights • Bottom up approach • Developing partnerships • Making use of lessons learned / Learning by doing • Coordination and coherence

19. CLAC Climate and Development Days 4th and 5th December 2010

20. Who are we? We are a network representing Fairtrade organisations of democratically organised Small Producers that aim to develop and strengthen grassroots organisations in Latin America. • We advocate for fair development and trade policies at both local and international levels.

21. CLAC Members Currently, 300 organisations of small producers are organised as multiple product networks and “National Networks” in twenty one countries in the region. Together the number of families exceeds 200,000, which would include more than a million people.

22. PRODUCING COUNTRIES Countries participating in CLAC Argentina Belice Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Windward Islands Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru R. Dominicana Venezuela

23. Climate Change Effects on Latin America Producers

24. Some Climate Change Effects on Latin America Producers • Low productivity in most products. For example, coffee in Colombia, pineapples and bananas in Costa Rica. • Harvests at unpredictible times. • Natural disasters have greatly affected our producers (For example Agatha in Guatemala and Honduras, Thomas in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, only this year). • Cycle changes in the application of fertilizer and maintenance of farms (producers for example, are not sure when is the best time to fertilize). • Need to invest in irrigation systems, or vice versa, need for improvements in system or drainage channels due to heavy rains. • Economic losses due to inability to export on time as bridges and roads are often destroyed.

25. What do we do for the enviroment?

26. Fairtrade and ClimateChange • All Fair Trade producers implement an Environmental Plan: sustainable and good agricultural practices, conservation areas, buffer zones, we promote a culture of continuous improvement. • We protect the environment as a cross-cutting theme.

27. Fairtrade and ClimateChange • We encourage awareness of efficient use of resources. • Our producers invest part of their Fair Trade premium in projects for the environment. • Our producers are oxygen generators and carbon sequestrators. • We promote clean energy through partnerships with stakeholders. • We encourage organic agriculture.

28. What do weneed?

29. What do weneed? • Technical support and resources to adapt to climate changes. • Information on technologies and latest climate change research. • Specific Training: Water management, soil conservation/erosion control, pest/disease management, renewable energy technologies. • Financial support – grants for adaptation, low interest loans, private investments. • Partnerships and systemic approaches to address climate change.

30. What do we demand?

31. What do we demand? • Accomplishment of an international binding agreement that enforces countries from the North to reduce their gas emissions. • We DO NOT want money in exchange for these treaties to be forgotten. • Compensation. Our farmers are paying for the destruction of their crops the effects of climate change produced by others. Thousands if not millions of small farmers across the three Americas and the Caribbean are seeing their crops being destroyed by serious and severe changes to both climate and the environment.

32. Network of Asian Producers NAP Network of Fairtrade certified producers in the Asian Region

33. Who are we? NAP Representative body of farmers, workers and others belonging to Fairtrade Certified Producer Organisations in Asia.

34. What's our Mission? NAP's mission is to be an organ of representation, coordination, exchange, and collaboration… for the empowerment of small-scale farmers' and farm workers' organisations from Asia within the framework of Fairtrade Certification.

35. Where are we? • Spread across 12 countries in the Asian region

36. Prolonged droughts and Unseasonal Rains Ask the farmer If you find climate skeptics that are hard to convince, tell them: ask the farmer!

37. Food Security & Crop Diversity - Fair Trade is Key Recapturing Biodiversity of the farms Stable prices and the incentive of social premium helps farmers diversify the food basket and re engender bio diversity.

38. Forest Protection: Stewardship by local farming communities is key JUMBO NUTS Fairtrade premiums invested to reduce man animal conflict and protect the forests.

39. Fair Trade enables Small farmers protect biodiversity The Nilgiri Biosphere * Shift to mono cropping considered significant factor in environmental devastation * Fair Trade provides strong incentive to perpetuate homestead farming traditions anchored on crop diversity

40. Organic needs trade justice Fair and Organic • Organic farming is sustainable only with fair market access. • Almost all organic farming collectives in Kerala today are on the way to or already Fairtrade certified!

41. Our Relationship with the planet is inextricably linked to our relationship with fellow human beings. • Fair Trade is a small glimpse in to how that relationship can be anchored on fairness and mutual respect.

43. Fairtrade Africa • Fairtrade Africa (FTA) is the umbrella organisation of Fairtrade certified producers in Africa • Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya; regional offices in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania • Represents Fairtrade producers from 25 African countries • FTA is governed by a representative Board

44. Fairtrade & Climate Change in Africa We will share 3 illustrative examples: • Tea in Kenya • Nuts in Malawi • Rooibos tea in South Africa

45. Climate Change ChallengesTea in Kenya • Tea farmers in Kenya have seen a change in climate that threatens their production. • Small scale tea industry has seen production decline by 18% in 2009 and reach and average high reduction of 6% in ten years. • Population pressure is exacerbating pressure on resources • Heavy dependency on tea production for cash incomes

46. Adaptation Response • Farmers at Iriaini in central Kenya have utilised FT resources to diversify income • Areas unsuited to tea production are used for other productive activities

47. Adaptation Response Alternative food /fruit crops: Passion fruit and sunflower provide healthy food and for other economic benefits

48. Adaptation ResponseBiomass for climate change • A pioneer project by Iriaini Tea Factory and its farmers in conjunction with fairtrade partners is using biomass for commercial gain in form of briquettes for industrial and domestic use. • With partners in government and the FT movement, the Iriaini tea factory is converting its fuel supply from wood to biomass briquettes. • The vision is that by 2012 all 6 000 farmers of Iriaini tea factory will rely on biomass for their energy requirements, without felling any trees for energy uses

49. Boiler using briquettes at Iriaini tea Factory Briquettes made from biomass for clean energy

50. Malawi Malawi’s economy is entirely dependent on agriculture, which provides 85% of the population with its livelihood where smallholders constitute around 90%