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2008) There are landowners who are certified to produce under the fair trade license and receive the fair payments for their exports, but it does not ensure fair payments to labourers who may work on the fields as bad practices in poorer countries are still present. Some would argue that most labourers do not receive fair payments und an article on the independent explains that ‘four-fifths of produce sold by Fair-trade farmer’s ends up in non-Fair-trade goods – and that the system helps land owners, not labourers. One potential issue of Fair trade deals is that they can also pose risk for farmers in the poorer countries, in the Guardian’s article’s it has stated that ‘Congo: gourmet coffee, sold in Sainsbury’s, is now being sourced from war-torn regions on the border with Rwanda where until now most coffee has been smuggled across Lake Kuvu, resulting in up to a thousand deaths a year’ (2010).įair trade deals in conflict zones still happens in some war torn countries, fair trade requirements are not met as the working conditions are hazardous ,which means that reducing poverty will not be applicable to those countries faced with danger as people would risk their lives just to receive fair payments into the open global market through fair trade. Therefore fair trade is not really helping to reduce poverty worldwide. Fairtrade payments will not be fairly distributed even though they all export the same products such as coffee. This explains how one country gets paid more than the other poorer countries. Other countries that deals in fair-trade products benefits more than others ,In the Guardian news article it says ‘ while Mexico has 51 Fair-trade producers, Burundi has none, Ethiopia four and Rwanda just 10 – meaning that “Fair-trade pays to support relatively wealthy Mexican coffee farmers at the expense of poorer nations”(2009). this explains how other chocolatiers can still get away with mixing non fair-trade beans with fair trade beans ,this is misleading to the public because only a low number of fair trade farmers are getting the correct payments ,therefore it’s not having a significant impact on the reduction of worldwide poverty. In terms of major chocolate brand such as Nestle and Cadbury also started using fair-trade cocoa beans, however in this BBC news article it states ‘all may not be what it seems, because despite the logo, your Dairy Milk, Kit Kat, or Maltese’s, may contain no Fair-trade cocoa beans at all’(2012). This article showed that child labour still is present under fair trade farming deals, this does not help in reducing the worlds poverty problem. The statement explains that the requirements for a fair trade licence are not applicable to some poor farmers, so it questions the effect they are having on reducing worldwide poverty.Ĭocoa is widely consumed in every part of the world, Ghana and Ivory coast are the main exporter of cocoa, Fair trade deals are also present with the farmers in these countries, however, this article BBC article ‘the Fair-trade cocoa co-operative in Ghana which supplies Cadbury and Divine, suspended seven out of 33 of their cocoa farming communities in one of its 52 major growing districts in the country after they were found to be using the worst forms of child labour’. ĭespite being publicized as fair trade is ,it cannot help all the farmers who obviously don’t meet the standards ,an independent newspaper article wrote ‘ Some poorer or remote farmers cannot organise and join up others cannot afford the fees still others will be working for larger producers who are excluded from many Fair-trade product lines(2012). according to that statement is suggest that fair trade does not really have the major impact that its publicised to have in reducing worldwide poverty.
They were lifted out of poverty because they could sell their products on the open global market, rather than being sectioned off in the fair trade market’ (2007). Many people in China and India escaped poverty last year without the help of fair trade, an article on BBC news states ‘that was done through real market developments rather than small-scale fair trade deals.
#Fair trade coffee cooperatives david reiss how to#
) this could further increase the believe that fair trade would rather have farmers be dependent on themselves than teaching them on how to survive on their own. Some critics of Fair trade argues that Fair trade does not really help to reduce worldwide poverty because farmers are dependent on Fair trade shoppers ,An article on BBC news website states ‘ Yet others argue that fair trade can end up being a trap for farmers, tying them into a relationship of dependence with charity-minded shoppers in the West‘ (2007.
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