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A 4 page memo discussing fair trade as it relates to the international coffee industry. The concept of fair trade relative to subsistence farmers in developing countries ensures that small farmers receive sustainable prices for their goods while also encouraging sustainability in production. The memo recommends that a local coffee company commit to making a portion of its coffee sourced in fair trade. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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File: CC6_KSenvFairTrd.rtf
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The concept of fair trade relative to subsistence farmers in developing countries ensures that small farmers receive sustainable prices - i.e.,
never lower than market price - for their produce. The aim of organized fair trade practices focuses on "the injustices of conventional trade" (FAQs, n.d.) faced by small family
farmers to enable them "to improve their position and have more control over their lives" (FAQs, n.d.). There are complaints that fair trade encourages agricultural abuses that work against
the very principles of social responsibility (ONeill, 2007). This can be a valid complaint, but it cannot be more than an uninformed one.
Products that gain the "Fair Trade Certified" designation have been certified to have been produced using standards that seek to "ensure that farmers in developing nations get a fair
price for products, use sustainable farming methods without forced child labor and do not use the most harmful pesticides" (Palmer, 2008; p. 2). ONeill (2007) complains that the fair
trade "movement doesnt address issues of mechanisation and industrialization," thereby missing the point of fair trade practices. One of the leading arguments against globalization and the "evil corporation" is
that it requires local people to adjust to its way of doing things - such as operating with a high degree of mechanization - and in so doing changes the
local culture and even social structure. In contrast, fair trade principles work within established local culture to help to improve living standards for otherwise subsistence farmers.
In a review of Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization (Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray and John Wilkinson, New York: Routledge, 2007), Jaffee (2008) notes
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