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Fair Trade Organic Coffee Helps To Improve Welfare Of Producers
By John Cranby
You go to your fair trade stores and buy some coffee that’s been
certified both fair trade and organic. That is, you know it’s
been produced through smaller cooperatives of farmers who have
banded together to eliminate middlemen and negotiate fairer, higher
prices.
They do this, so they can do more than just make a subsistence
living to feed the big coffee corporations. They use less destructive
and more sustainable farming methods. So you know fair trade organic
coffee is a good thing. Isn’t it?
However, fair trade is an easy bandwagon to jump on, and several
big corporations have done just that. Walmart, for example, hopped
on in 2006 by starting to offer fair trade coffee through its
Sam’s Club division.
Greater Benefits For The Farmer
Starbucks also gets a small proportion of its coffee through
fair trade organizations, as does Folgers, and Proctor and Gamble.
Even though fair trade barely dents the profits of coffee produced
on a mega-scale, the big corporations, like oil companies, don’t
want to lose out on a single dollar of the business.
There is some skepticism about whether big corporations can truly
promote fair trade organic coffee. One of the ideas behind the
fair trade movement is that there is a closer relationship between
the farmer and the buyer, and that the farmer receives greater
benefits from their labor, and gets better prices not dictated
by a corporation.
Improve Welfare Of Smaller Producers
But if large corporations themselves become involved, still profit-driven
and still trying to get the best return for their shareholders,
some wonder how they can possibly maintain the conditions originally
required to be fair trade certified in the first place.
The whole motivation for starting the move toward fair trade
organic coffee and fair trade in general was to improve the welfare
of smaller producers and give them a more direct voice in getting
compensation for their labor and products.
Reasons For Big Corporations Entering Fair Trade Movement
If some big coffee company again starts to lump these small farmers
into a bigger and bigger group, then it may effectively drown
their voices again and give the corporation all the control once
more.
It remains to be seen if the entry of big corporations into the
fair trade movement is done for the right reasons or simply for
the sake getting back full control.
About The Author:
John Cranby is a popular author on cooking. His other articles
include Books
for Cooks, Cake
Decorating Supplies, Anniversary
Gift Baskets, Virginia
Peanuts, Herbal
Teas, Coffee
Houses, Peanuts,
Salt
Water Taffy, Pumpkin
Seeds, Casserole
Recipes, Milk
Chocolate Candy, Make
Chocolate Truffles.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this site.
Did You Know?
Ah coffee! That refreshing and rejuvenating brew that so many
people turn to each morning in order to wake up. Did you know
that there is a lot of money to be made in trading coffee? It
is certainly an in-demand product that is bought and sold each
day.
If you are interested in fair trade coffee shares then you have
to be educated and know what you are doing. Otherwise you may
be just tossing your money down the sink like yesterday’s brew.
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