Fair trade stakeholders

This chapter aims to illustrate the role and importance of ethical (fair) trade in the agricultural production chain. Towards that, we will initially analyse the organic market and will illustrate the role of the accreditation schemes and the local certification bodies. This is followed by a section on ethical (fair) trade discussing the evolution of the concept(s) and their association with organic production. The last sections examine the view of the stakeholders and selected supply chain members in relation to ethical (fair) trade, before drawing relevant conclusions. 

Standards and/or regulations on baseline social issues (see e.g. ILO, SAI, fair trade, IBS Chapter 8), created and supported by multiple stakeholders in the organic food chain. 

The aim and optimum result of this step is identification of a set of measures (programme of measures) which are perceived as a fair trade-off between different stakeholders interests, without encountering anyone s opposition and taking Articles 4.5-7 of the WFD into account (see Hattermann and Kundzewicz, 2007). If such an alternative cannot be found, another possibility is to identify the alternatives that hve... 

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