The benefits of Fair Trade

Each blog described one part of the advantages of Fair Trade. My goal for this blog is to join all these together.

When you ask someone after the benefits of Fair Trade, the first thing they imagine is the poverty reduction. This contains less illiteracy, more healthcare, etc. However Fair Trade aims for more benefits.

To begin with we have community development. Nowadays organizations in developing countries are more transparent and democratic, both men and women have a say. Beside this we can notice a huge increase in cooperatives, a company where farmers all work together and so they have more to say (because they eliminate intermediate trade).

Second is the improvement of environmental health. Fair trade tries to reach this by encouraging organic farming and avoiding the use of agrochemicals. This would improve the farmers' health and their independence towards developed countries. Namely, agrochemicals are produced by them.

At the end of the list of benefits stands the consumer awareness. More often people will chose to buy products with an Ecolabel or Fair Trade Label on it. If everyone is in favour I recommend that we can work this topic out as a part of our presentation.

Tessa De Clerck


Used source:
http://www.fair-trade-hub.com/benefits-of-fair-trade.html