The governance of fair trade system: evidence from small honey producers in Rio Grande do Sul



Título del documento: The governance of fair trade system: evidence from small honey producers in Rio Grande do Sul
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
Base de datos:
Número de sistema: 000552835
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
2
Instituciones: 1Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
2Faculdades Integradas de Taquara, Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Oct-Dic
Volumen: 6
Número: 4
Paginación: 367-379
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés This paper discusses Fair Trade FT certification as a way to include small producers in global value chains, and identifies the main barriers for small honey producers from RS to meet these criteria. A new trading system such as FT has been providing access for food products coming from small farmers from developing countries. The method of this study integrates global value chain analysis and the methodology proposed by Paul (2005) to analyse FT as development projects. This study is three-fold: first to characterise the FT system; then to present the role of governance by third party certifiers such as FLO-CERT and finally to provide empirical evidence of the main difficulties that small producers have to comply with FT, such as export and organisation capacity. Our findings show that large retailers recently became big players in the FT system. The certification costs are high but can provide market access though there is a risk of overspecialisation.
Disciplinas: Economía
Palabras clave: Condiciones económicas
Keyword: Small producers,
Global value chain,
Fair trade system,
Standards,
International market,
Economic conditions
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