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The Fair Trade Federation does not certify individual products, but instead evaluates an entire business. The FTO Mark, launched in 2004 by World Fair Trade Organization, and identifies registered fair trade organizations. UTZ Certified is a coffee certification program that has sometimes been dubbed "Fairtrade lite". [17]
Fair trade attracts bad beans by making growers dump their bad beans into fair-trade channels. Costs to growers imposed by restrictions on fertilizers and other inputs diminish yields. Fair trade doesn’t help the poorest growers. Relatively little fair-trade coffee originates from the poorest countries.
An investigation into the limits of Fair Trade as a development tool and the risk of clean-washing, HEI Working Papers, Geneva: Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, October. Mohan, S (2010), Fair Trade Without the Froth – a dispassionate economic analysis of 'Fair Trade', London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
The Fair Trade Certified Mark in the United States was introduced by TransFair USA on the American market in 1998. In 2012 a variation of the US Fair Trade certification mark was adopted with the benefit of being registered globally as a trade mark. The mark is designed to pop better on the shelf through a far simpler design and the use of color.
Fairtrade International was established in 1997. It set private standards relating to labour, cooperative organisation, and the governance of the Fairtrade benefits. The organisation was divided in January 2004 into two independent organisations: [5]
A home's fair market value is, in a nutshell, the price that a buyer would pay a seller in an open market. Many factors go into determining it, including location, size, age, condition and the ...
The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) is the global community and verifier of enterprises that fully practice Fair Trade. It is an association of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), farmers or retailers that fully practice the 10 Principles of Fair Trade.
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