期刊名称：European Journal of Social and Human Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1339-6773
出版年度：2016
卷号：12
期号：4
页码：139-145
语种：English
出版社：Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
摘要：Fair trade endeavours to provide higher level of finance for producers, sustainable long term buyer seller relationship, formation of effective producer organizations, improve community development and promote environmental friendly production methods. The fair trade process started with coffee. As a result, Coffee still has the highest share of quantity among all fair trade products in the market with highest number of involved producers and workers providing the guaranteed minimum price for coffee sold under fair trade label is supposed to reduce financial risk of farmers and provide better living standard for their workers. However, obtaining fair trade certificates are not free of charge from 2004 as producer should pay for application, initial certificate and also renewal of certificate. Payment of such fees can take away a substantial part of premium received by farmers. Other problem to notice is that fair trade buyers do not guarantee the procurement of whole production of certified producers. As a result, farmers will face a dilemma of whether or not to apply for fair trade certifications or continue renewal of their certificates. In other words, cost and benefits of receiving fair trade certificate is not completely clear for many producers. in its endeavour to tackle above mentioned problem , this paper will take a comparative approach to existing research materials on coffee production under FLC in Latin America to find answer to the question of what are costs and benefits of being a certified fair trade coffee producer? Paper is divided into four main parts. After the introductory part, economics of fair trade certificates will be reviewed. Third part will provide analysis on cost and benefits of receiving fair trade certificate and last but not the least, fourth part will provide conclusive remarks on the discussion.
