新作坊

Justice, Sustainability, and the Fair Trade Movement: A Case Study of Coffee Production in Chiapas.

摘要：

This article provides a brief backgrounder on Chiapas, Mexico, in the context of globalization and the international coffeetrade. It looks at the redistributive aspect of the fair trade system: how fair trade attempts to circumvent the unequal trading relationships of the world market by offering "fair" prices to certain kinds of producer groups. This is the most publicized and transparent aspect of fair trade. The next section examines the productive relations that are supported by the fair trade system. Fair trade is explicitly committed to the support of producers growing coffee in certain ways, involving certain relations of production, and within the framework of a larger development scheme.