Fair for All? Plantations and the Futureof Fair Trade

摘要

Fair trade, organic, and shade-grown labels guide our purchasing and attest to the conditions of production of the products they adorn; conditions that we believe are better as the result of our purchases. Fair trade packaging, in particular, claims that purchasing such Fair trade, organic, and shade-grown labels guide our purchasing and attest to the conditions of production of the products they adorn; conditions that we believe are better as the result of our purchases. Fair trade packaging, in particular, claims that purchasing such products supports ‘small farmers’, who receive higher monetary yields for their crops and democratically decide how these revenues are distributed. But despite their origins in Latin American coffee cooperatives, international fair trade certification agencies, the most notable being Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), have developed a set of what they call ‘hired labor’ standards to bring fair trade to plantations. Since the 1990s, FLO has been certifying tea plantations in India, as well as banana and flower plantations.