{"product_id":"the-fair-trade-scandal-ndongo-sylla-9780821420928","title":"The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ndongo Sylla has worked for Fairtrade International and offers an insider's view of how fair trade improves-or doesn't-the lot of the world's poorest. His methodological framework first describes the hypotheses on which the fair trade movement is grounded before going on to examine critically the claims made by its proponents. By distinguishing local impact from global impact, Sylla exposes the inequity built into the system and the resulting misallocation of the fair trade premium paid by consumers. \u003ci\u003eThe Fair Trade Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e is an empirically based critique of both fair trade and traditional free trade; it is the more important for exploring the problems of both from the perspective of the peoples of the Global South, the ostensible beneficiaries of the fair trade system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ndongo Sylla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821420925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821420928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/07\/2014 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 316","brand":"Ndongo Sylla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926523412735,"sku":"9780821420928","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2f87b0fc-6c12-4527-8326-782c22efb7f4.jpg?v=1681083538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fair-trade-scandal-ndongo-sylla-9780821420928","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}