Fair Trade and Organic Agriculture Developing Countries: A Review

摘要

Fair trade regimes and organic agricultural systems are 2 innovations that increasingly play an important role for agriculture in developing countries. Whereas fair trade regimes have their origin in the developing countries; organic agriculture was started in the rich countries and has only recently become popular in the Third World. Both innovations can he mutually reinforcing as fair trade often combined with organic production standards opens up new market prospects. In this article we explore the opportunities and constraints of marketing organic products from developing countries under fair trade regimes. Based on available literature; we review evidence of the magnitude of organic production and fair trade systems in developing countries. Wealso propose a framework for studying the impact offair traded organically produced commodities using the case of black pepper in India. The framework will generate testable hypotheses regarding the 2 innovations.