Global Producer Services
Empowering More Farmers and Farm Workers around the World to Thrive on the U.S. Market

TransFair USA's Global Producer Services (GPS) initiative employs an integrated, market-based approach to poverty alleviation in rural communities in 50 developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. GPS empowers farmers and farm workers to achieve greater benefits from Fair Trade by fostering secure, long-term trading relationships with U.S. business partners, and by enabling farming communities to sell more of their products on Fair Trade terms. The dramatic growth of the U.S. Fair Trade market, averaging more than 55% annual growth since 2000, offers tremendous opportunities for new and existing Fair Trade producers. GPS leverages our relationships across the supply chain to efficiently link producers and industry. Fair Trade producers engage in capacity building and market linkage initiatives to strengthen their organizations and better capture Fair Trade opportunities, and we invite new suppliers to take advantage of burgeoning market opportunities where demand growth is exceptionally strong. In turn, Fair Trade producers offer improved quality, product availability, and customer service to their partners, and strengthen the Fair Trade network

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