Essays on Fair Trade

Introduction

Historically, Guatemala has been a well known producer and exporter of high quality coffee. In recent years, however, stiff competition from other coffee producing nations such as Brazil and Vietnam has driven global prices low. This means that it has become increasingly unprofitable to produce coffee in Guatemala. Despite the ample land and human resources available in the country, farmers have been forced to stop production since they can no longer pay workers from proceeds. For the most part of the country, this has led to poverty and under-development. Incredibly, however, some farmers have vowed to fight on, forming

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Executive Summary

Green Mountain is one of the leading coffee brands in the highly competitive American coffee market. The brand was established in the year 19981 and quickly grew to be most popular coffee brand in USA by overtaking market leaders like Starbucks. Apart from offering world class coffee to its customers, Green Mountain also commits itself to the sustainable business practices. It procures a substantial part of its coffee seeds through the Fair Trade Coffee route. Fair Trade Coffee involves procuring coffee directly from the coffee producers and ensuring a good standard of living for coffee producers and coffee workers.

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One of the rapidly growing areas of modern "sustainable" agriculture is the movement of "fair trade» (Fair Trade). This movement advocates fair international labor standards, environmental and social regulation on agricultural products and handcrafts. In particular, this movement focuses on the export of goods from developing to developed countries. The system of production and sales of these products is designed to help farmers in poor countries get a decent wage for their work. In order to achieve the optimum cost structure of products it is obligatory to minimize the number of intermediaries between the farmer and the buyer. Production

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INTRODUCTION

General Statements on Global Business Standards Codex and Fair Trade
The Global Business Standards Codex comprises of various ethical principles that have elemental meaning. These ethical principles have different arguments and speculations that guide different business operations in different organizations and industries. On the other hand, fair trade as defined by Sally Smith and Stephanie Barrientos refers to a trading partnership that is based on elements of dialogue, respect and transparency, which seeks to promote greater equity in the international trade (Marcovitz, 2011, p. 33). Traditionally, the movement of fair trade sought to attain its goals by facilitating and

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Using three ethical principles of the Global Business Standards Codex (GBSC), evaluate the fresh food industry

Fair trade refers to a trading partnership guided by dialogue, transparency and respect with a motive of fostering equity in international trade. Conventionally, the  fair trade proponents have had their focus on encouraging involvement of small-scale producers in international trade through provision on guarantees especially fair prices for their commodities, constant supply relationship and access to credit facilities Clapp & Fuchs, 2009, 5).
In my evaluation am going to use transparency, dignity and fairness ethical principles. Concerns have been raised by agri-food actors (farmers, producers and consumers) regarding abuse of market power by major supermarket chains (MSCs). As a result,

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RECOMMENDATIONS

The Fair Trade a term that refers to the entire Fair Trade Movement and all organizations that abide by the ten Fair Trade principles. Fair trade describes the labeling and certification systems governed by the Fair-trade International. (Miller, 2010, p. 19). The Agro Water Barrel Company promotes principles of fair trade. The company should continually advocate the adoption of more practices of fair trade. The following are recommendations for the organization are proficient to help solve the wicked problem.
The business and concept of fair trade should be elemental by responding to all failures related to conventional trade (Renard,

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6) Fair Trade Products Private Limited Products Private Ltd is a company that is based on the model to provide the maximum benefits of the trade activities to the original farmer or producer such as Coffee growers in Africa, Wheat grower in Asia and Cocoa growers in Middle East. It aims to reduce the role of brands and middle men in the process. Usually, these brands and middlemen get away with the bulk of the profits leaving very little profits and margin for the original farmers and producers of the goods and services who have contributed to the production

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Organization Behavior

Holden Outerwear is a company that cares about the internal and external environment. The professional internal team of Holden Outerwear finds the inspiration in fashion. In comparison with the competitors, that look for the inspiration mostly in the internal environment, Holder Outerwear goes beyond the boundaries and always look outside. External environment, like friends, travelling, permits Holden outerwear to make the unique products. Holden outerwear cares about the environment and uses the eco-friendly family of techniques and recourses, like recycled fabrics, solvent free laminations, biodegradable packaging.
Holden Outerwear has the pretty high standards. A compliance with those standards is

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Executive summary

Just Us! Coffee is the leader retailer and wholesaler of fair trade products in Canada. The company also deals in other fair trade products such as tea, sugar, and chocolate. Its main differentiation is to sell organic products under the fair trade umbrella. Fair Trade gives the company a sense of social responsibility and environmental responsibility in addition to dealing in premium quality products. The fair trade market is a growing market supported by its differentiation values. Just Us! Café wishes to expand its business in order to maintain its share of the current market in Canada. Meanwhile the

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Fair trade coffee refers to t a coffee that is licensed as having been manufactured and marketed at a stated set of values. Customers in the developed countries tend to pay more for this coffee with an impression that they are helping farmers at the least developed nations meet their basic and psychological requirements. Free trade, on the other hand, refers to a market model whereby movements of goods within and without the involved countries happen without government’s limitations, for example, charges and taxes.
While, fair trade tends to benefit only the producers of the products in the

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Annotated bibliography

Cailleba, P., & Casteran, H. (2009). A quantitative study on the fair trade coffee consumer. Journal of Applied Business Research, 25(6), 31-46. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/227583556?accountid=45049

This article draws attention on the manners in which ethical behaviors

of consumers contributes to fair coffee trade. This is vital because most people purchase coffee depending on the consumer perception and values. However, the article also offers the French transactions case study conducted between 2005 and 2007, whose major aim was to find out the effects of personality traits, types of promotion and the characteristics of a product on coffee purchases. Further, the article goes ahead to investigate on the relationship between coffee purchases,

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In current times almost all people in the world participate in one way or another in a global economy. Even though the global economy is a shared system, the underlying values of people throughout the world are not. Some people are set in their native culture and traditional value systems. Other people are drawn into the world where the accumulation of wealth equals power and opportunity. This division cannot be rationalized by the two diverse groups in the equation. The traditional group cannot fathom a world where wage labor is the means of existence as they see it as

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