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Is Fairtrade coffee fair?

With the increase in the number of people who drink coffee, more and more people are concerned about the exploitation of the coffee market. With the rise of Fairtrade coffee, small coffee farmers can get a "guaranteed purchase price" and continue to make ends meet.

This is followed by more reviews and questions about Fairtrade, such as Connor. Woodman's concern in unfair Trade is whether these Fairtrade labels will eventually become nominal marketing tools and ethical stickers.

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Gender has also been gradually brought into the scope of discussion, and the situation of female workers has long been hidden under the collective term labourers. Fair trade is not really fair. In fact, there is a huge gender gap in the agricultural industry of developing countries.

Female workers "high output, low income"

It may be hard for us to imagine that women are the main source of agricultural labour in developing countries; they spend a lot of time responsible for the vast majority of production and processing operations. But because men own most of the property and land ownership, they often get only 10% of the income, which is out of proportion to the labor force.

This is particularly true in the coffee industry, where women complete more than 70% of the production and repackage work, but actually own less than 20% of the coffee resources (whether it's land, income or company ownership).

When Fairtrade is bringing clear light to the coffee market, there are still such a large group of people who go unseen and cannot benefit.

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Coffee produced by female workers

CAC Manager, Esperanza (Photo: taylorscoffee)

To improve this phenomenon, CAC (Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Pangoa) in Peru began to advocate buying coffee grown by women, then using the earned money to invest in industrial equipment and projects, giving back to growers, and combining a variety of crops to increase production in order to attract more international buyers. CAC, whose managers are mostly women, has also set up a related unit dedicated to the development of women.

The running voice of CAC has made this topic jump on the world stage and been reflected and discussed by everyone.

The example of the coffee industry is just a drop in the ocean. There are gender imbalances in various aspects in every corner of life, but there are differences that are concerned or ignored from large to small. There is still a long way to go to bridge this gender gap.

To the editorial department,

In response to the original title, "Fair Trade is unfair," they spent 70% of their labor to make a cup of coffee in our hands. With the content presented in the original text, the enthusiastic workers engaged in Fairtrade pointed out their first paragraph, resulting in the listeners' misunderstanding of "Fair Trade". And the meaning of the first paragraph is: "gender is also gradually brought into the scope of discussion, the situation of female workers." Covered up for a long time under the collective term labourers Fair trade is not really fair. In fact, there is a huge gender gap in the agricultural industry of developing countries. " After re-consideration by the editorial department, it did cause trouble for workers engaged in fair trade, as well as the listeners' misinterpretation of the gender imbalance in Fairtrade organizations.

CAC, which is also a fair trade organization, sees differences in income due to gender, but it does not directly point to whether there is a labor gender problem in the fair trade organization. The editorial department holds a positive attitude in compiling this article, in order to focus on the attention of the listeners to fair trade workers and their concerns, but the introduction to the preface outside this compiled article is indeed inappropriate in terms of text. Here, I apologize again.

I hope everyone will attach importance to the development of fair trade.

And make fair trade fairer

For the original translation, except for the revision of the title, the editorial department of the text retains its presentation history and does not modify it.