공정무역: 초보자를 위한 가이드

Abstract

The book Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide is to help the reader understand and analyze Fair Trade. All around the globe, Fair Trade has the potential to reshape how products are made and consumed. As such, it can influence how we relate to each other as human beings. Through this book the reader can consider the impact and influence of their purchases and how they connect them with people in their own community and country around the world. The immense problems of poverty cannot be solved by Fair Trade by itself. Development assistance, improved governance structures, and even reformed conventional trade in the sectors that Fair Trade does not involve, such as technology and transportation, are all parts of a multifaceted solution to poverty and lack of opportunity. This book provides the principles of Fair Trade, how they are linked to fine traditions of justice embodied by outstanding individuals and enterprises, how Fair Trade affects lives, and the examples of average people who make the impacts possible. This book also provides the ideas for how the reader can broaden Fair Trade commitments and participate in defining the future. The author of this book, Jacqueline DeCarlo first encountered Fair Trade while travelling in Latin America in 1999 and soon thereafter became a volunteer with a coffee cooperative in Mexico. Through her travels and explorations, she came to understand first-hand the benefits of Fair Trade relationships to both producers and consumers. Convinced that Fair Trade offers a sustainable and empowering framework for understanding consumption and trade, Jacqueline returned to the United States determined to help educate other consumers about Fair Trade's power and potential.