Fair trade or trade fair? International food trade and cross-border macronutrient flows

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 104976
Author(s):  
Silvio Traverso ◽  
Stefano Schiavo
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Cross Border

scholarly journals Fair Trade: An Imperfect Obligation?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Hassoun
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Common

Fair Trade is under fire. Some critics argue, for instance, that there is no obligation to purchase Fair Trade certified products and that doing so may even be counter-productive. Others worry that well-justified conceptions of what makes trade fair can conflict. Yet others suggest that the common arguments for Fair Trade cannot justify purchasing Fair Trade certified goods, in particular. This paper starts by sketching one common argument for Fair Trade and defends it against this last line of criticism. In particular, it argues that we should purchase Fair Trade certified goods because doing so benefits the poor even though there are other ways to alleviate poverty. It then considers how other common arguments for Fair Trade fare in light of similar criticism and concludes that they may well succeed.

scholarly journals Mediating the agency of distant others: Proper distance in fair trade communication on Facebook

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Proper Distance ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Fair Trade Organizations

To introduce economic justice into global trade, fair trade organizations strive to ‘shorten the distance’ between producers and consumers through mediation. This article problematizes the idea of ‘shortening the distance’ through the notion of maintaining the ‘proper distance’ in representing distant others. This perspective is used in narratological analysis of the content that fair trade organizations curate on their Facebook pages to represent Southern producers. The two organizations studied are: (1) Fairtrade Finland, a non-governmental organization (NGO); (2) Pizca del Mundo, a commercial brand in Poland. This article identifies the discursive and narrative forms of mediated agency that are offered to producers. The analysis revealed that Fairtrade Finland utilized Facebook to extend the narrative of producers as active subjects. By using the affordances of Facebook, Pizca del Mundo increased the mediated agency of producers but problematized the maintenance of the proper distance in their representations.

The free trade–fair trade debate: Trade, labor, and the environment

1998 ◽  
pp. 186-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Howse ◽  
Michael J. Trebilcock
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Fair

scholarly journals Is Fair Trade ‘Fair’? A Study of Handmade Paper Producers in Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Kharel ◽  
Gerad Middendorf
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
Handmade Paper
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