Latin American Coffee, Cocoa, Fresh Fruit and Sugar Farmers
Demand for Fair Trade Certified coffees from key Latin American origins has skyrocketed in recent years.  In order to sustain this growth and the dramatic benefits producers can gain from it, farmers require investments in management, communications and other infrastructure, quality improvement, organic conversion, and export capacity, among other key areas. Together with producer recruitment and training, this initiative could benefit as many as 70,000 South American farming families, half of whom could access the US Fair Trade market for the first time.
Participating Countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico Nicaragua Peru and Paraguay.

West African Cocoa
Cocoa cooperatives in West Africa require urgent investments in infrastructure, as well as training in quality improvement and business development. These investments will reduce barriers to these farmers’ success in the US Fair Trade market and help them seize enormous market opportunities. 
Participating Country: Côte d’Ivoire

East African Coffee
Coffee producing communities that are new to the US Fair Trade market require immediate investments in basic infrastructure and processing facilities, along with quality control and improvement training.  At the same time, more established Fair Trade producer groups in East African face growing demand for organic coffees, so organic conversion training and new producer recruitment and training represent major priorities.  Finally, producer groups across the continent report pressing need for financial literacy and cooperative management training. 
Participating Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

India: Basmati Rice and New Fair Trade products
As rice, coffee, fruit and cotton farmers build new agricultural cooperatives, they require orientation to international market opportunities and agribusiness development.  The cooperative structure allows individual farmers to avoid predatory trading agreements and instead collectively market their product to international, higher-value markets.   Newly formed cooperatives would benefit greatly from certification, export capacity building, cooperative management, and market linkage services.  These investments will stabilize and accelerate the success of newly formed producer groups.  
Participating Country: India

Asian Coffee and New Products Development 
Along with training in quality control, organic conversion and compliance, and management, organizations in this region require market linkage services.  Together, these services will empower hundreds of thousands of farmers in some of the most historically disadvantaged communities in Asia to implement sustainable local economic development programs fueled by immediate opportunities on the US Fair Trade market.
Participating Countries: Indonesia, East Timor, Thailand