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Fair-trade coffee: how fair is fair?

Code: 9781801465915
Publication date: 03/10/2022
Extent: 24 pages

Contributions by: Ruud Bronkhorst, InfoBridge Foundation, The Netherlands

Chapter synopsis: An important aspect of sustainability that needs discussion is a fair income for producers and laborers involved in agriculture. This chapter discusses what ‘fair’ means and the approach used by some major Voluntary Sustainability Standards to calculate ‘fair’ prices for producers. This is followed by two alternative approaches to calculate prices: the ‘Living Income Reference Price Formula’ and the ‘Living Income/Fair Price Approach’, a bottom-up approach for defining what is a ‘fair’ price from the farmers’ perspective.

DOI: 10.19103/AS.2021.0096.11
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Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 Defining what is ‘fair’ 3 Defining ‘fair’ wages and incomes 4 Voluntary Sustainability Standards relating to fair prices 5 Other approaches: the Living Income (and Other Benchmarks) Reference Price Formula and the Living Income/Fair Price approach 6 Conclusion 7 Abbreviations 8 Where to look for further information 9 References

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