Extent of fair trade market and China potential for a bigger fair trade market

CONCLUSION

The fair trade system is getting more and more popular. Scholars, farmers, businesses, politics, and the like are getting aware and sensible to the fair trade message. Fair trade not only addresses the question of offering market opportunity to small farmers; it message goes far beyond this issue to embrace matter related to sustainable development through the environmental, and human rights aspects involved in its programme. Fair trade is a trade even if its method is somehow different. As such it links up producers, traders and consumers who form it market. The fair trade market is currently limited to the developed world due to historical and practical reasons namely the purchasing power of the consumers. The fair trade market is of course still wading through but it is limited to satisfy the supply that is why it is considered to be a niche market. Some developing countries can contribute to widen the fair trade market. It is the case of Chine that can, not only develop a fair trade market for its own products but also for products from other countries in order to achieve food safety issue, and balanced development the authorities keen to and to contribute to the global sustainable development. This country is facing serious environmental problems while it is more and more question to have rational use of natural resources. There are potential consumers of fair trade products; there are available facilities and infrastructures, and there is the willingness of official for ecologic practices in agriculture. A micro analysis can deepen the present macro approach based on agricultural commodities.

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