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DOI	10.1038/s41893-019-0311-5
	Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers
	Meemken E.-M.; Sellare J.; Kouame C.N.; Qaim M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	635
结束页码	642
卷号	2 期号:7
英文摘要	Workers in rural areas in developing countries often face precarious working conditions, low wages and poverty. Sustainability standards—such as Fairtrade—could potentially improve the situation. Although many studies have analysed the impact of Fairtrade on smallholder farmers, few focus on wage workers beyond those employed by large companies despite most workers being employed by small farms and cooperatives. We analyse the effect of Fairtrade on workers’ wages and working conditions in the small farm sector. We conducted a survey among workers in the cocoa sector in Cote d’Ivoire and their employers, distinguishing between farm workers and cooperative workers. Fairtrade improves wages and reduces poverty among cooperative workers, but not among farm workers, even though the latter are particularly deprived. At the cooperative level, labour standards are regularly monitored by Fairtrade. Certification also helps cooperatives increase the services offered to their members, which leads to more and better-paid employment at the cooperative level. At the farm level, inspections of labour standards are more costly, difficult and rare. Thus, Fairtrade hardly affects traditional employment modalities at the farm level even when farmers themselves benefit from certification. Ensuring that labour standards are met at all levels may require innovative and more efficient monitoring approaches. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Developing countries; Rural areas; Efficient monitoring; Farm workers; Labour standards; Large companies; Low-wages; Smallholder farmers; Wages
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163352
作者单位	Cornell University and University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States; University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; World Agroforestry Center, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meemken E.-M.,Sellare J.,Kouame C.N.,et al. Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers[J],2019,2(7).
APA	Meemken E.-M.,Sellare J.,Kouame C.N.,&Qaim M..(2019).Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers.Nature Sustainability,2(7).
MLA	Meemken E.-M.,et al."Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers".Nature Sustainability 2.7(2019).