Fair Trade

FAIR TRADE

2010

FAIR TRADE IN THE WORLD

These last two decades, at the expense of the southern countries international trade are multiplied, digging the inequalities between men and threatening the global balance. According Max Havelaar, international label grouping NOG (Non-governmental organization) and producer representatives, the volume of world trade is now 14 times higher than it was in 1950. In the same time, the world has lost about 30% of its natural resources.

In addition, the World Bank has published, in 2005, alarming figures on poverty in the world over a period of 10 years. In effect, 56% of the world population lives, actually, in the poverty: 1,2 millions people live with 1,25 dollar per day and 2,8 millions people others with 2 dollars per day. Thus, fair trade is born in the years of 1970’s. Fair trade is born to reinstate the man at the center of the economy and fight against poverty.

The fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries obtain better trading conditions and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as social and environmental standards. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate, flowers and gold.

So, now we finished to introduce the fair trade, we will go to treat this issue: has the fair trade a real impact on the producers? Has the fair trade a future?

To resolve this issue, we will start by describe the objectives of the fair trade. Then we will see fair trade today. Finally, we will talk about future, if the fair trade has a future.

To begin, we go to see in this part, the objectives, and the principles of the fair trade.

In first, there are many various objectives, but the most important are:

* To get a price and conditions more fair...