Capitalism and the Environment

The fair trade movement, also known as the trade justice movement, promotes international labour, environment and social standards for the production of traded goods and services. The movement focuses in particular on exports from the Third and Second Worlds to the First World; but there are many products sold by fair trade retailers which are produced in the first world too.

In October 2006, over 1.5 million disadvantaged producers worldwide were directly benefiting from fair trade while an additional 5 million benefited from fair trade funded infrastructure and community development projects.

Fair Trade has been growing at 37% year to year increase, making people wonder whether Fair Trade is the biggest growing market after The Internet.

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