Fair trade /
Fair trade /
Ariana Agrios, book editor.
- First edition.
- 176 pages ; 23 cm.
- Current controversies .
- Current controversies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Rece
"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"--
9781534506091 1534506098 9781534506084 153450608X
2019022598
International trade--Moral and ethical aspects--Juvenile literature.
International trade--Environmental aspects--Juvenile literature.
Competition, Unfair--Juvenile literature.
Commerce.
Competition, Unfair.
International trade--Environmental aspects.
International trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Developing countries--Commerce--Juvenile literature.
Developing countries.
Juvenile works.
HF1379 / .F3373 2020
382/.3091724
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Rece
"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"--
9781534506091 1534506098 9781534506084 153450608X
2019022598
International trade--Moral and ethical aspects--Juvenile literature.
International trade--Environmental aspects--Juvenile literature.
Competition, Unfair--Juvenile literature.
Commerce.
Competition, Unfair.
International trade--Environmental aspects.
International trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Developing countries--Commerce--Juvenile literature.
Developing countries.
Juvenile works.
HF1379 / .F3373 2020
382/.3091724