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Asked 29 October 2024
  • Independent QLC researcher

Interested in old but key 2010 WHAT IF QUESTIONS that can be used to justify FAIR TRADE POLICIES as good market fixes? Have you read this article?

Here some good food for thoughts!
Muñoz, Lucio, 2010.  What If Markets Have Always Been Distorted? Would It Then Be a Good Fix to Add Fair Trade Margins to Correct Distorted Agricultural Market Prices?, Journal of Sustainability, Issue 2, Number 4(Spring), Rio Rancho, New Mexico USA.

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Geoffrey Candia Levuason
Mountains of the Moon University
I think it would still be relevant to correct distorted agricultural market prices through adoption of fair trade margins because market prices of agricultural produce are not statics but rather dynamic so at particular time, the approach could help in setting prices of agricultural markets.
Lucio Muñoz
Independent QLC researcher
Geoffrey, thank you for taking the time to comment.
Keep in mind, the margins once internalized by all producers/ firms or agricultural producers/firms do not remain static, trade margins become the drivers of fair trade production towards maximizing fair trade profits at the lowest fair trade market price possible, meaning at the lowest fair trade margin possible; and hence, making that way fair trade margin reduction a good fair trade profit making opportunity while driving those markets towards clean fair trade markets as the fair trade margins added tend towards zero.
I do appreciate your comment

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