Fair Trade: partners in development? A reassessment of trading partnerships within the Fair Trade model

2012 ◽  
pp. 103-119
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Trade Partners

scholarly journals Evaluating the decision to participate in a fair-trade model of coffee-producing households in Xuan Truong commune, Da Lat city, Lam Dong province

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nam H. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Likelihood Estimation ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Coffee Production ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Fair Trade Coffee ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Method

Fair trade in coffee production offers an opportunity to improve farmers’ position in the market. The study used a logit model with the maximum likelihood estimation method to evaluate the famers’ decision to participate in a fair-trade coffee production model. Data were collected by directly interviewing 220 farmers in Xuan Truong commune, Da Lat city, Lam Dong province. This commune has applied the fair-trade model in coffee production with the brand of Cau Dat coffee. The results of this study showed that the probability of households deciding to participate in the fair-trade coffee model was 14.43%. In addition, factors affecting the decision to participate in the fair-trade coffee model were householders, education level, area of agricultural land, profitability, awareness of fair trade, desired price of coffee, and agricultural extension. In particular, the farmer’s awareness of fair trade and the desired price of coffee had positive impacts on the farmers’ participation in a fair-trade coffee model.

YEREL ÜRÜNLERİN PAZARLARA AÇILMASINDA ALTERNATİF BİR TİCARET MODELİ OLAN İNSAFLI TİCARETİN YEREL ÜRETİCİLER TARAFINDAN KULLANILABİLİRLİĞİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI: KARABÜK İLİNDE BİR UYGULAMA A RESEARCH FOR THE EMPLOYABILITY OF FAIR-TRADE BY LOCAL SUPP

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Fikret Gümüşbuğa
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Alternative Trade

The need to promote the production of natural products, the necessity of supporting small suppliers in every phase of production to recompense their endeavours, and the need for a model suitable to our country for marketing naturally produced goods are obvious. Fair trade, which is defined as fair worldwide, is seen as an alternative trade model encouraging small suppliers to produce natural products and secure their sustainability. In this research which seeks to find out if fair-trade is employable in our country, in-depth interview is made with small suppliers operating in the province of Karabuk. According to the results of the research, it is found that a trade model similar to fair-trade can be applied in Turkey and that it can provide competitive advantage for small suppliers.

Kennedy, Oil Imports, and the Fair Trade Doctrine

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Zeiler
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Trade Expansion ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Trade Partners ◽  
At Home

In his efforts to secure passage of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, John F. Kennedy had to placate not only oil and coal interests at home, but also traditional trade partners like Venezuela abroad, and he also had to foster the broad national security aim of retaining domestic oil reserves. This article argues that Kennedy was able to utilize a fair trade doctrine to gain enactment of legislation that would both lower trade barriers and assist domestic producers hurt by increased imports.

scholarly journals Fair Trade and Justice: A Case Study of Fair Trade and its Effect on the Freedom of Bolivia’s Indigenous Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 195-217
Author(s):  
Tamara Stenn
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Public Reasoning ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Pillar Structure

Amartya Sen has written that for justice to be realized, freedom needs to be expanded. Fair Trade, a model of global trade that puts into motion billions of dollars, purports to promote justice, and therefore expands freedom. Fair Trade is a four-pillar structure comprised of institutions, producers, consumers, and government/policy. An economic, ethnographic study of Bolivia’s indigenous women working within the Fair Trade model for the past 15 years reported mixed results. The women questioned the justice of the model based on negative experiences induced by irregular work, stress, and unsupportive communities. At the same time, women acknowledged enhanced capabilities and opportunities emanating from skills development, empowerment, and income. Although it increased women’s freedom, there are ways in which Fair Trade could be made fairer through transparency, reciprocity, and public reasoning. This work is significant in the sense that it creates a new understanding of justice and trade that enables women’s voices to be heard.Amartya Sen ha planteado que para lograr justicia, se necesita expandir la libertad. El Comercio Justo, un modelo de comercio global que pone en movimiento miles de millones de dólares, pretende promover la justicia y, por consiguiente, expandir la libertad. El Comercio Justo es una estructura de cuatro pilares que comprende instituciones, productores, consumidores   y gobiernos/políticas gubernamentales. Un estudio económico y etnográfico de mujeres indígenas de Bolivia que han trabajado con este modelo de comercio los últimos 15 años reportó resultados muy diversos. Las mujeres cuestionaban la justicia de un modelo basado en experiencias negativas resultado del trabajo irregular, del estrés y de la falta de apoyo por parte de las comunidades. Al mismo tiempo, las mujeres reconocían mejoras en las capacidades y oportunidades que emanaban del desarrollo de habilidades, el empoderamiento y los ingresos. Aunque incrementó la libertad de las mujeres, hay maneras por las cuales el Comercio Justo podría llegar a ser más justo a través de transparencia, reciprocidad y razonamiento público. Este trabajo es importante en la medida que crea una nueva interpretación de la justicia y del comercio que permite escuchar la voz de las mujeres.

YEREL ÜRÜNLERİN PAZARLARA AÇILMASINDA ALTERNATİF BİR TİCARET MODELİ OLAN İNSAFLI TİCARETİN YEREL ÜRETİCİLER TARAFINDAN KULLANILABİLİRLİĞİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI: KARABÜK İLİNDE BİR UYGULAMA

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Fikret Gümüşbuğa
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Alternative Trade

The need to promote the production of natural products, the necessity of supporting small suppliers in every phase of production to recompense their endeavours, and the need for a model suitable to our country for marketing naturally produced goods are obvious. Fair trade, which is defined as fair worldwide, is seen as an alternative trade model encouraging small suppliers to produce natural products and secure their sustainability. In this research which seeks to find out if fair-trade is employable in our country, in-depth interview is made with small suppliers operating in the province of Karabuk. According to the results of the research, it is found that a trade model similar to fair-trade can be applied in Turkey and that it can provide competitive advantage for small suppliers.

Fair Trade as an Instrument for the Regulation of Risks in the Cross-Border Surrogacy Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-763
Author(s):  
Sharon Bassan
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Medical Standards ◽  
Minimum Price ◽  
The Cross

AbstractCross-border surrogacy transactions [CBST] entail several risks for the participants and the resulting child and, consequentially, for their states. In the absence of clear standards or coherent legal rules, the global industry depends on private contracts, the result of negotiations between parties from different countries with unequal bargaining power, which distributes risks and benefits unfairly. In this article I suggest a Fair Trade model as an instrument for the regulation of these transactions.The Fair Trade model addresses market failures and the externalization of risks. The basic principles of Fair Trade include trading process according to proper standards of quality and ethics based on a certification mechanism, a minimum price to producers, direct purchasing, transparent rules and fair distribution. In addition to quality and ethics, Fair Trade is a developmental tool, ensuring more of the economic benefits to producers in the global south.Applying these elements on the cross-border surrogacy market can be fruitful for the regulation of risks entailed in CBST. Certification of surrogacy services can ensure proper medical standards and fundamental rights, and decrease health risks; direct purchasing through democratically elected surrogates’ co-operatives could improve the surrogates’ power of negotiation and decrease contractual risks; a minimum price could guarantee a greater income to surrogates, and social premium could be used to fund communal projects and help surrogates to improve their social position. Finally, transparency can address administrative risks and ensure that children’s rights are not violated.

Crisis Management under Economic Sanctions: Mission Impossible?

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Afontsev
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Normal Growth ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Technology Markets ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Trade Partners

Economic sanctions against Russia form a completely new context for public and private efforts to cope with crisis trends in Russian economy. With limited access to global goods, capital, and technology markets, it can at best minimize costs of the crisis but not come back to the normal growth path. Strategies to find new trade partners and sources of capital outside the group of countries that have introduced economic sanctions against Russia are welcome, but their potential is rather limited. Under these circumstances, crisis management should be centered neither on the alleged ‘Russia’s pivot to the East’ nor on the wide-scale import substitution but on normalization of economic relations with key country partners, regaining currency stability, and structural reforms aimed at moving national economy away from commodity specialization.

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