Rubi Lopez Haiyan Wang Demsina Babazadeh Hannah Hankins Yi Wang.

Fair Trade and Social

Justice with Food

Rubi Lopez Haiyan WangDemsina Babazadeh Hannah Hankins

Yi Wang

What is it?— A system that makes sure that commodities are bought at a fair price to the producer— The farmer becomes more and more connected to you, the consumer via this logo

Charity?— Fair Trade is not a charity, however, makes no profits itself. The whole purpose of this organization (Fair Trade USA) is to send a significant chunk of money back to the producer

Money. Money. Money.— The money that is made via fair trade inflation to retail price is specifically designated for social, economic and environmental development projects to the community they live in (PROS)

Why isn’t every store becoming fair trade friendly?

CoffeeTea and Herbs

Cocoa and Hot ChocolateSeed cotton

Flowers and PlantsCane Sugar

BananasFresh Fruit

NutsRice

VanillaFlowers

Fair Trade Products

What are we doing? • UC Davis Dining Services launched

“Banana Campaign” in Feb 2012— now all bananas = fair trade!

• Fair Traded Starbucks coffee ONLY• Fair Traded chocolates • Fair Traded Honest Tea• If they are claimed to be “Fair trade”

they must be certified by IMO Fair for life, FLO, Fair Trade USA

http://dining.ucdavis.edu/documents/UCDavisSustainableFoodserviceProgressReport-2014.pdf

One of the strengths of Fair Trade Health Promotion

Organic and Fair Trade

• A nearly half of all Fair Trade Certified imports were organic.

• Organic products are free from chemicals such as pesticides which are found in conventionally produced foods. This is great for food service!

• Fair Trade and Organic go hand in hand. In order for food products to qualify as Fair Trade commodities, they have to pass the quality assurance test or the certification process that ensures they are free of chemicals

• UC President Janet Napolitano has committed the University of California Campuses to “healthy living”

• According to Napolitano, “ this initiative brings together the University’s research, outreach and ampus operations in an effort to develop and export solutions throughout California, the United States and the world for food security, health and sustainability.”

• This initiative stretches to 10-campuses

• Key point of the initiative that is linked to Fair-Trade is: “developing policies to better enable small growers to become suppliers”. This is the basis of Fair Trade

Objective:

What Does It Take To Be Certified Fair Trade?

• First producer/ companies focus on sustainable production and improve living conditions for workers

• Professionalization of processes in order to improve quality and the value of the product

Requirement:

• Obey with the national labor laws and the conventions of the international Labor Organization

• Obey with basic environmental standards, sustainable water and energy use, reduced the use of chemicals in farming, reduction of soil and tree erosion, promotion of biodiversity.

• Traceability flow of goods and transparency in financial flows.

Why a Farm/Farmer Would Chose Not To Classify As Fair Trade? (Drawbacks

of Fair Trade)• An investigation by the I-DEV ( International Development) had

observed that not a single farmer could say whether their life had improved financially or otherwise since the arrival of Fair Trade

• Farmers felt no sense of ownership in their co-op. Farmers were completely unaware about their produce were sold, how much they sold for or what they were used for.

• Problem with the transparency of business dealing not clear due to language and literacy barriers.

What are companies doing?

References used http://www.unctad.info/en/Sustainability-Claims-Portal/Discussion-Forum/Fair-Trade/

http://fairtradeusa.org/what-is-fair-trade/global-reach-map#

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_problem_with_fair_trade_coffee

http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_future_of_fair_tradeis_there_one/

Brett, A. (2011). Fairtrade, fair-trade, fair trade and ethical trade: semantics, politics and development. Food Chain, 1(1), 117-125.

DeGroat, B. (2012, March 15). Consumers mistake fair-trade foods for lower-calorie | University of Michigan News. Consumers mistake fair-trade foods for lower-calorie | University of Michigan News . Retrieved October 19, 2014, from http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20277-consumers-mistake-fair-trade-foods-for-lower-calorie

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Dragusanu, Raluca, Daniele Giovannucci, and Nathan Nunn. "The Economics of Fair Trade." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28.3 (2014): 217-36. Journal of Economic Perpective. Web.

www.pacha.coop

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-launches-global-food-initiative