Does fair trade support local workers and economies? Overview: Fair trade and worker exploitation / Anca Voinea -- The benefits of fair trade from the consumer perspective / Sporcle Inc. -- Fair trade benefits for the producer : ensuring food security / Bob Doherty -- Price premiums and new opportunities benefit fair trade producers and workers / Matthias Schmelzer -- Fair trade improves the lives of the impoverished / Elen Jones -- How fair trade maintains poverty / Andrew Chambers -- Free trade, not fair trade / Gene Callahan -- Fair trade is incompatible with the rules of economics and fails producers / Ndongo Samba Sylla -- Recent studies of fair trade show that producers still face financial instability / Sanjay Lanka and Steffen B?ohm -- Does fair trade protect the environment? Overview: Environtmental sustainability : fair trade versus alternative consumption / Ashley Overbeek -- Fair trade means protecting the environment / Fair Trade USA -- How sustainability in Indonesian coffee production is strengthening local communities / Commons Abundance Network -- Fair trade farmers work to protect the environment / Heather Nicholson -- Produce grown overseas increases our carbon footprint / Annie Kelly -- The dark side of coffee : an unequal social and environmental exchange / Alexander J. Myers -- Does fair trade positively impact communities? Overview: Fair trade's social impact varies by country / Kevin Behne -- Fair trade as a tool to strengthen community democracy and autonomy / Co-operative Press -- Fair trade reduces child labor and exploitation / Fair Trade Australia New Zealand -- Producers weigh in on the benefits they received through fair trade / Rachel Dixon -- Fair trade reduces human trafficking and protects children / Hannah Gould -- Fair trade's high startup fees hurt poor countries / Addison Arnold -- Fair trade is a contributor to poverty / Christopher Cramer -- Fair trade fails producers and tricks consumers / Bruce Wydick -- Is fair trade actually fair? Overview: The two sides of fair trade, fair and unfair / Sarah Morrison -- Fair trade in agriculture helps farmers improve their quality of life / SourceTrace -- Fair trade supports producers and their communities socially, environmentally, and economically / Friends of the Earth Limited -- Does fair trade help the poor, or just relieve guilt? / Hugh Outhred and Maria Retnanestri -- Multinational corporations pose a danger to small fair trade producers / Agatha Herman -- Organizations to contact.
Summary:
"Fair trade is intended to help producers in developing countries achieve better working and trading conditions while maintaining certain environmental standards, which is achieved through arrangements with distributors around the world. With the influx of fair trade goods on grocery store shelves and restaurant menus, one would assume an overall positive trend in trade conditions is occurring. However, numerous concerns continue to surround fair trade, such as whether it benefits all developing countries and markets equally, the extent to which it is effective at protecting the environment, and what conditions would make trade as fair as possible."
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