Fair Trade is a nice idea, but how much impact has it really had?
----- Original Message ----- From: "M.Blackmore" <[email protected]> To: "RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: Too Poor to Make the News > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 14:22 -0400, Ed Weick wrote: >> dealing with a monopsony of >> four or five very large and very powerful buyers. The buyers set the >> prices, and the growers had to take it or leave. > > > This is where the Fair Trade movement comes in - OK so that makes it 5 > or 6 buyers but at least they are under pressure to offer better > producer end prices... > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
