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Fair Trade Movement

In: Handbook of Spirituality and Business

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  • Zsolt Boda

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The Fair Trade movement seeks to address the problems of disadvantaged and small-scale producers in the underdeveloped countries by providing market access to their products through trading partnerships. The Fair Trade movement is backed by ethically conscious consumers, who are ready to pay a higher price for products that improve the well-being of marginalized producers as well as their communities. The Fair Trade partnership provides better trading conditions, higher prices, and a continuous relationship with the producers; it also ensures that human rights and environmental concerns are respected, and that children are not exploited in the production process. Fair Trade is a well-established and fast-growing alternative business model to the mainstream way of economizing and trading. It uses a different set of values and objectives than traditional trade, institutionalizing solidarity and putting people and their well-being, as well as the preservation of the natural environment, before the pursuit of the profit.

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  • Zsolt Boda, 2011. "Fair Trade Movement," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (ed.), Handbook of Spirituality and Business, chapter 47, pages 396-403, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-32145-8_47
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230321458_47
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