Definition of Fair Trade
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, on Feb. 2011
The concept of fair trade is a relatively recent concept that arises from organizations and social entities of various kinds, in addition to being also considered by the United Nations (UN), which supposes the gradual but sure change from inequitable forms of trade that benefit the inequality social and economic worldwide by other forms of trade in which the equality Among all the parties considered participants is paramount. Fair trade fights for more natural forms of exchange that leave out very important elements in the capitalism such as speculation, the mega abundance of capital against absolute poverty and misery, the material enrichment, mass production for mass consumption, alteration and subsequent contamination of environment, etc.
The beginning of movement known as fair trade is to balance economic, and therefore social, powers between developed countries and deeply industrialized, with developing countries managing mostly still precarious economies and primitive. In this sense, fair trade seeks to reinvigorate and revalue those activities and forms of trade that can benefit consumers. producers of what is commonly known as the Third World to balance the scales in a time of profound social inequality and economical.
Fair trade thus aims to give rise to all types of producers, even those who are normally relegated by the capitalist system that is based on the extraction of natural resources and raw materials from developing countries to later place those same materials in the form of manufactured products and with a higher value. In addition, this movement is interested in favoring development, training and training of these producers so that their final product is of higher quality and thus acquires a higher value that is not necessarily represented in numerical terms but in terms of quality. Finally, fair trade also promotes means of production, distribution and commercialization equitable that do not harm either producers or consumers with the existence of intermediaries or speculators who alter the quality or price of the products to be exchanged.
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