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How are Fair Trade Standards Made?
Buying fair trade products is a good choice but selling them is not as easy since they are required to meet certain fair trade standards. Meeting such standards enables sellers to obtain what is known as a fair trade certification. This certification will allow buyers...
Ten Thousand Villages: How Fair Trade Started
The movement of fair trade started some sixty years ago with the founding of Ten Thousand Villages. The organization was the brainchild of Edna Ruth Byler, a businesswoman who was struck by the poverty that she witnessed when she went on a trip to Puerto Rico. She...
The Three Fair Trade Principles
In applying the standards to small-scale producers and the workers, 'FLO International' sets three common fair trade principles to follow. Each of these areas is necessary if the practice of the fair trade act to succeed. These 3 principles are in the areas of:...
Why does Fairtrade mean sustainable trade?
Why Early Fair Trade Law Failed
For most people fair trade is a relatively new concept. In the U.S. however there was a time a thing such as fair trade law was enacted. The major difference of this fair trade law with what we know about it today is that it mainly deals only on the issue of pricing....
