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The Fair Trade Minimum Price is a security factor for 1.6 million farmers and workers in more than 75
countries. Through it, the organization is enhancing and contributing to Goal 1: end poverty in all its forms
everywhere because it is a kind of protection from volatile markets and ensure the coverage of the costs
for sustainable products.

The Fair Trade contributes to Goal 2: end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture through the Fairtrade Access Fund that distributed until date more than
US$128 million, which benefited 252,000 smallholder farmers in 18 countries and provided technical
support for smallholders.

The established standards and values of Fair Trade like the prohibition to gender discrimination, gender
based violence and sexual harassment added to action of promoting rights for parental leave, pregnant
and breastfeeding women; and the gender leadership schools and funding through the Fairtrade Premium
for women, promote the Goal 5: gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

The Fair Trade Hired Labour Standard contributes for achieving the Goal 8: decent work for all, by ensuring
more than 200,000 workers to enjoy better and suitable working conditions such as better terms of
employment, contracts, working hours and collective bargaining and freedom of association.

The Fair Trade Standards promote equality, prohibit discrimination, and contribute to achieve the Goal
10: reduce inequalities. Migrant workers, youth and women can take part of in decision making and have
opportunities in making their cooperatives and plantations. The Standards assure the protection of any
kind of discrimination related to gender, discrimination, training and promotion. Therefore, it if provided
support and upskilling to make sure the access to decent income and rights.

Fair Trade contributes totally through both ends of its supply chain to achieve the Goal 12: sustainable con-
sumption and production patterns. On the one hand, producer organizations get support to comply with
Fairtrade social and environmental standards. On the other hand, Fairtrade Trade Standards keep account-
able traders and buyers for issues such as fair prices, transparent contracts or compliance with environ-
mental and labour law.

Fairtrade aims to tackle climate change issues and protect the environment and biodiversity, promotes
climate resilient agriculture though its standards programs. Agricultures invest in biogas or renewable
energies, harvest rainwater and integrate organic fertilizers, pest management and dynamic agroforestry.
Furthermore, Fair Trade assure fair financial returns to producers. The actions and programs promote to
tackle and achieve Goal 13: combat climate change and its impacts.

Fairtrade label is the only one global ethical label from which the 50% is owned and run by farmers and
workers. Even if cooperatives must abide the Fair Trade Standards, requirements such as transparency and
democracy, they decide how to spend the Fairtrade Premium for production improvements or communi-
ty’s sustainable development. By this way, through the accountability and internal governance, Fairtrade
helps for the achievement of Goal 16: building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions.