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...

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...

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...

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 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

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...

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...

1. Unsere ökonomische Zukunft ist unsicherer denn je -- 2. Unvorhergesehene Pandemien -- 3. Internationale Konflikte und deren ökonomische Auswirkungen -- 4. Klimakatastrophe ohne wirksame Gegenmaßnahmen -- 5. Die soziale Frage und die Rolle des Staates -- 6. Künftige Entwicklungen der...

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...

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...

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...

Fair trade has been researched extensively. However, our understanding of why consumers might be reluctant to purchase fair trade goods, and the associated potential barriers to the wider adoption of fair trade products, is incomplete. Based on data from 409 USA participants, our study...

To learn about the role of information content and source as catalysts to increase consumers' valuation of fairly traded foods, we conducted an online survey with 2500 consumers representative of the German population. Within the online survey, respondents were randomly assigned to one of five...

The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom up" approach to concerns for fairness, we show how...

How can the Chinese emissions trading scheme (ETS) be redesigned or improved to better address issues of fairness and equity, innovation and learning, and awareness and social acceptance? In order to meet its 2030 carbon emission reduction pledges, the Chinese government has announced plans for...

A Dispassionate Economic Analysis of 'Fair Trade'When it comes to the purchase of everyday goods such as coffee, tea and sugar, most consumers believe that sellers of Fair Trade products occupy the high moral ground. Despite its strong statements, however, the claims of the Fair Trade movement...

Seit der Ministerkonferenz der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) 2017 in Buenos Aires drängen die „Freunde des E-Commerce” auf ein umfassendes neues Abkommen zu digitalem Handel. Wird das geplante Abkommen bestehende Ungleichheiten zwischen dem Globalen Norden und dem Globalen Süden weiter...

Large chocolate manufacturers have committed themselves to only using certifiedcocoa beans and some governments want to increase the share of certified cocoaproducts consumed in their countries. Thus, Voluntary Sustainability Standards(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and...

To learn about the role of information content and source as catalysts to increase consumers' valuation of fairly traded foods, we conducted an online survey with 2,500 consumers representative of the German population. Within the online survey, respondents were randomly assigned to one of five...

We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features inter-group inequality between entrepreneurs and workers, and also intra-group inequality within each of those two groups. Individuals in the economy are heterogeneous with respect to their entrepreneurial...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to critically evaluate the applicability of bio certification in farmers' activity to reduce unfair trading practices in the food supply chain. The secondary purposes are describing the economic reasons of using bio certification and perspectives of using web...

1. Unsere ökonomische Zukunft ist unsicherer denn je -- 2. Unvorhergesehene Pandemien -- 3. Internationale Konflikte und deren ökonomische Auswirkungen -- 4. Klimakatastrophe ohne wirksame Gegenmaßnahmen -- 5. Die soziale Frage und die Rolle des Staates -- 6. Künftige Entwicklungen der...