One more study shows that Fair Trade results in lower wages and more poverty than evil old commercial farming. This is because commercial farms use things like scale economies, advanced genetics, synthetic fertilizers and mechanization while the the fair traders are limited by their condescending sponsors to pickng up and flinging poo to increase yields on their subscale patches.
What the world's poor need is not condescension but free trade. Small is definitely not beautiful to hungry children and Ed Shumaker was more pied piper than sustainable visionary, leading the global poor to accept lives of penury that none of us would tolerate for a minute.
But of course the entire Organic/Fair Trade/Free Range complex is anti-poor - rich prats buffing their egos at the expense of the weak. More at the link.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/its-official-fairtrade-screws-over-labourers/15082#.U4xnnKUo7qA
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