EconWatch.com > FLO decides not to raise fairtrade prices

[ James5] recognize the urgent need for a robust review of Fairtrade Coffee Minimum Prices and acknowledged the value of the data submitted by the CLAC. In view of the diversity of Fairtrade coffee-producing regions and coffee-consuming markets, a team at FLO will now obtain and study cost of production data for all coffee regions (including the study provided by the CLAC), seeking further data where necessary, and obtain information to allow a proper assessment of the market impact of different pricing options.

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[Fairtradecoffeeinperu.blogspot.com] Fair Trade Coffee in Peru: An Economist's Notebook: I'll skip forward to Friday, where there was a very interesting presentation by Chris Bacon on the competitiveness of the FLO (Fair Trade) certification model with respect to other sustainable coffee labels. Most of the other labels, from Utz Kapeh to Starbucks' Cafe Practices, use a pure premium model.

http://www.justcoffee.net [Justcoffee.net] Fair Enough?: Reports from the Frontline of the Battle for Fair ...: A second, related challenge is that the labelling and accreditation organizations are coming under increasing scrutiny from critics who claim their standards are not ”˜fair’ enough. In March 2006, a BBC programme speculated that the higher price consumers were paying for fair trade products was not all going to the producers but being pocketed by supermarkets.3 Then on 8 September the Financial Times reported from Peru that non-certified coffee produced by labourers paid less than the minimum wage was being sold as fair trade, and that the Fairtrade Foundation ”˜misleads consumers about its ability to monitor production practices’.4

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