Nowadays Fair Trade products can be bought everywhere. But while the shoppers are buying the Fair trade products having this pleasant feeling that they are helping some poor farmer in Africa, other people question the effectivity of helping the third world in such a way.
What the Fair trade organization wants is to pay honest wages to Third World farmers. If any company is interested in receiving the Fair trade Label they should pay the farmers of the third world countries higher than their own market prices, so the farmers can invest that money in education for their children and all the kind of social need available in their country.
But not everyone is fund of the Fair trade system. Because the main goal of Fair trade is to give fair wages to the poor farmers, but in the meantime they forget that there is no evolution in the industrial sector or in the mechanization. If they would pay more attention to these two factors it would be possible to help a developing country on a much higher scale.
So how fair is this fair trade system? Does the organization only want that ‘some’ of these poor farmers can have a good life and can they just ignore the other millions of helpless citizens?
Jaskiran Singh
www.fairtrade/bbc.com
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