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1) Along with tens of thousands of other banana growers in the Windward Islands, Denise Sutherland faces ruin. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forced the European Union to phase out its old quota system that guaranteed West to Indian growers market access, and there is no Way SHE CAN match the Prices of the Giant US Corporations That Dominate the Market for the World's favorite Fruit.
2) In Costa Rica, Juan Valverde Sanchez, a sugar cane grower who Sells to a local Farmers' Association, is unsure if . he and His colleagues Will Survive Another year Most of the World's sugar Producers CAN not break into the European or US Markets Because of High tariffs and the heavy Subsidies That Western Farmers enjoy.
3) BUT there is now Hope for Denise and Juan - They are Selling some or All of Their Growing Produce to the Market Fair TRADE That Protect Them from depressed Commodity Markets and the World Wars BETWEEN Giant multinations price.
4) For ITS Supporters, Fair TRADE is an Example of How World TRADE CAN and SHOULD be run to Poverty tackle. Producers are All Small Scale and MUST be Part of a cooperative or democratically-run Association of Workers who observe social and High Environmental
Standards.
5) Their Groups Deal Directly with first-World companies worldmarket That Pay Well over the price. They Also get an added Premium, Which goes Directly to the group of Farmers to be shared out in any Way They choose.
6) The price Difference CAN be as much as 100% and CAN Save a Farmer from Bankruptcy or Mean a Family has the Money to Send Their Children to School.
7) At the other End of the chain, the first-World Consumer Extra pays about a penny for a Cup of coffee or teaspoon of sugar, or a FEW More pence for a Banana.
8) Fair- trade food is booming. What started as a way for Dutch consumers to support Nicaraguan farmers in the 60s has grown into a $ 5OOm a year global niche market with more than 400 northern companies now importing fruit, coffee, tea, bananas, nuts, orange Juice and other foods.
9) Around 500,000 Small-Scale Farmers and Their families are Thought to be benefiting in 36 of the World's poorest Countries, and the Latest Figures Suggest it is worth $ 40m Extra
to Producers. Meanwhile, demand for other 'Fairly traded 'BUT unlabelled non-Food Goods, SUCH as Handicrafts and Textiles, is Also Growing.
10) Fair TRADE Food Sales are Growing by More than 25% a year internationally and Almost 100% a year in Britain, now the Largest Market after Switzerland . This Market is one of the MOST Remarkable Consumer success Stories of the Past Decade, Promoted quietly in
Britain, and now attracting Multinationals SUCH as Sainsbury's, Starbucks and Carrefour.
11) It is ironic, though, That Fair TRADE, Which was Designed to reduce the injustices of the World Trading system, a victim could Itself Managing Director of the WTO. Technically, it could be banned Because WTO rules prohibit 'differentiation' BETWEEN Products on the Basis of Their
means of Production.
12) In the Meantime, Fair TRADE Shows That Charity is not needed to Lift People out of
Poverty and social and Environmental Standards That CAN be put into TRADE.
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