To modernize legacy standards with updated approaches to due diligence, transparency, and farmer inclusion — ensuring that Fairtrade continues to align with evolving human rights, environmental, and trade regulations.

• Fairtrade Standards Evolution (Major Overhaul)
• Trader Standard: Transparency and Traceability Addendum
• Environmental Criteria Harmonization
• Fairtrade Premium Governance Reform

The initiative combines research, consultation, and field testing across all major Fairtrade standards. The focus is threefold:

1. Simplification: Streamlining requirements to reduce administrative workload.
2. Integration: Coordinating overlapping commitments between producers, traders, and hired labor.
3. Future-readiness: Ensuring standards anticipate upcoming supply chain and ESG reporting requirements.

Final outputs will shape the new generation of Fairtrade standards targeted for launch between 2027–2028.