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GCSE Geography · key term
An approach to trade that gives producers fairer trading conditions, including price protection and support for community development.
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Specification 6.2.2 · Component 2
Revise: Responses to Uneven DevelopmentInternational aid and fair trade respond to this inequality in different ways. Aid transfers resources to support people and projects, while fair trade changes the terms on which producers sell their goods.
Specification 1.3.3 · Component 1, Component 2
An approach to trade that aims to give producers fairer payment and better working conditions. Fairtrade is a specific certification system supporting these aims.
Fair trade is not free trade: fair trade aims to improve producers’ terms of trade, whereas free trade reduces barriers to international trade.
Distinguish free trade, which removes trade barriers, from fair trade, which aims to improve producers’ incomes and conditions.
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Fair trade aims to improve producers’ payment and working conditions. Fairtrade is a particular certification system with standards covering areas such as safe conditions, workers’ rights and democratic producer organisations.
