As the fashion industry grapples with sustainability challenges, Fair Trade and other alternative models offer pathways to ethical and environmental transformation. Yet, these approaches remain underexplored in practice and academia. Fair Fashion? critically examines the role of Fair Trade...

Beef is a "deforestation risk" commodity, and its production is environmentally challenging, given its exceptionally high carbon, water and land footprints. Europe is the world's third largest beef producer, following Brazil and the United States. Under European Union law, firms operating along...

Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) provide consumers with the assurance that certified products are produced under more sustainable conditions. While the literature on VSS has expanded considerably, most studies rely on cross-sectional data, thereby providing only a snapshot in time and...

This research focuses on the role of personal values and consumer social responsibility in shaping enduring involvement and purchase intention of fair trade products, taking into account the moderating effect of perceived consumer effectiveness. This study aims to examine how these psychological...

We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed as a market exchange relates to preferences for fair trade products elicited before and at the end of the experiment. We collected two samples, 10 years apart. In the original sample, fairness in the market experiment measured by the...

The increasing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials that help to treat and control spread of infections is a major public health problem around the world. Antimicrobial resistance is aggravated by inappropriate use of antimicrobials in human and animal health and in plant and animal...

While fair trade certifications are aimed to improve the socioeconomic conditions of small producers, no conclusive results exist about its effect. This study contributes with a holistic analysis of the effect of fair-trade certifications in Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations (SSEOs) of...

Private actors have been actively working on standards that certify products and their production processes to minimize negative externalities. The number of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) has been increasing over the last few decades, raising interest in understanding their impact on...

Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...

The increasing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials that help to treat and control spread of infections is a major public health problem around the world. Antimicrobial resistance is aggravated by inappropriate use of antimicrobials in human and animal health and in plant and animal...

Purpose This paper aims to identify the antecedents and postcedents of customer satisfaction, including utilitarian, social and emotional factors, in a fair trade (FT) coffee consumption context. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a broad range of 177 consumers of FT coffee in...

Fairtrade labeling has the potential to increase market efficiency by connecting farmers to altruistic consumers who are willing to pay a premium for sustainability-certified products. A requirement for increased efficiency, though, is that the farmers' benefits are larger than the Fairtrade...

This paper discusses issues related to the fair trade and trade justice movements. It finds the arguments of the trade justice movement unconvincing and their policies damaging. It suggests that Christian clergy should be careful when discussing such issues

Many small growers across the global south experience unfair trading manifestations and practices, are trapped into selling their product at drastically low prices, and are stuck below or near the poverty line because of exploitative market intermediaries. To cope, small growers have united...

This paper investigates the impact of Fair Trade standards on the lives of artisanal gold miners in Ghana. In cooperation with ten mining companies - five of which voluntary enrolled in a program to implement these standards and become Fair Trade certified - I evaluated the impact of these...

This study examines the reasons why people turn a blind eye to fair trade coffee (FTC) and the way to revitalize the FTC market. In-depth interviews with eight Koreans and eight Africans living in Korea were conducted and analyzed qualitatively. Our thematic analysis employed NVivo Word Cloud...

1. Introduction -- Part I: Korean Specialties -- 2. Chaebol Antitrust Policy in Korea -- 3. SMEs Antitrust Policy in Korea -- Part II: Conventional Competition Policies -- 4. Market Dominance Abuse Regulation in Korea -- 5. Merger Regulation in Korea -- 6. Cartel Regulation in Korea -- 7....

Disjunctions in the fair trade movement -- Fair trade enclaves within neoliberalism -- The discourse of crisis -- Self-exploitation and co-ownership -- Research methods and positionality -- Producing bananas in Costa Rica -- Producing Alianza (and Caché) bananas -- Contracts -- Working hours...

"Fair Trade CEO Paul Rice has spent his life and career exploring the issue of how to benefit from our planet's resources without destroying them or each other and pushing businesses to take responsibility for the way their products are sourced and encouraging consumers to buy them. In a world...

Fair Trade (FT) is a societal movement that aims to support poor and vulnerable producers in developing nations to attain improved trading conditions with direct link to consumers and excluding mediators in the trading chain (Young and Utting 2005). Therefore FT allows poor producers to be part...

This study explores the effects of competition on fair trade operations. Specifically, as a benchmark, we first explore a model with one fair trade organization (FTO), i.e., the monopoly FTO. We then consider two competing FTOs, i.e., the duopoly FTOs. These two competing FTOs have the same goal...