date:Jan 30, 2013
Growth in cocoa and sugar helped Fairtrade International achieve increases of 10% in the number of producer organizations and 13% in the number of farmers and workers in the system between 2010 and 2011, according to the non-profit organizations report Monitoring the scope and benefits of fairtrade 2012. Fairtrade premium received by smallholder cocoa farmers rose 89%. Total farmers producing Fairtrade sugar grew to 37,200 from 17,600.
By the end of 2011, the total number of small-scale farmers