 Fair Trade is an organized social movement whose
stated goal is to help producers in developing
countries achive better trading conditions and to
promote sustainability . It provides a better deal and
improved terms of trade.
 When a product carries FAIRTRADE Mark it means
the producers and traders have met Fairtrade
Standards.
 Fairtrade Standards are designed to address the
imbalance of power in trading relationships, unstable
markets and the injustice of conventional trade.
 The first attempts to commercialize fair trade goods in
Northern markets were initiated in the 1940s and 1950s
by religious groups and various politically oriented
non-governmental organizations(NGOs).
 Ten Thousand Villages, an NGO within the
Mennonite Central Committee and SERRV
International were the first, in 1946 and 1949
respectively, to develop fair trade supply chains in
developing countries.
 In 2006, Italian lawmakers started debating how to
introduce a law on fair trade in Parliament. A
consultation process involving a wide range of
stakeholders was launched in early October. A
common definition of fair trade was most notably
developed. However, its adoption is still pending as the
efforts were stalled by the 2008 Italian political crisis.
 Unfortunately the government of Turkey doesn’t do
anything about Fair Trade. But some social
foundations triying to do things about Fairtrade.
 I found one foundation which they are travelling in
Turkey and Europe, triying to make some concious
about Fair Trade.
 Starbucks is not the only one.
 There are places in Warsaw where Fairtrade products can
be found for consumption but they are rather few. Many
places that sell Fairtrade products admit that they no
longer sell them. In some places the staff had no idea what
Fair Trade was.
 At the moment in Krakow there are no places where
Fairtrade products can be consumed. Café owners admit
there is a supply problem. Some report that there are only
very small and very expensive packages available. Lack of
suppliers makes the sector very hard to develop.
 At the same time they expect that only their product will be
served. Fairtrade does not offer any additional bonus,
which is why it is not attractive.
 Polish businesses would be more likely to sell Fairtrade
certified products if the market for them were more
consistent.
 In Poland Fairtrade products can be usually found in
supermarkets and deli stores (“Bomi”, “Alma”, “Piotr i
Paweł”, “World’s Kitchens”). Also organic and ecological
food stores offer products that many consider as Fairtrade,
however they do not have the logo.
 The variety of goods is rather poor and prices are very high.
The reason is that these stores do not treat Fairtrade
products as their major goods; the choice of supply is rather
random. It is also hard to get information about them.
 At Masarykova 11 and Skalinska 2 in Zagreb Croatia
you can find Muzungu.
 This is a fair trade cafe and fair trade shop, apparently
Croatia's only fair trade shop and cafe.
 If one follows the ‘’official historiography’’ produced by
civil society organizations working on the introduction
of fair trade to the Hungarian public, the fair-trade
movement in Hungary is only 3 years old.
 Some awareness of the notion of fair trade was present
before in academic discussions and it was mentioned
several times in the limited circulation publication of
the Association of Conscious Consumers.
 However, the first organized steps to familiarize the
Hungarian public with the idea of fair trade came in
April 2005., when several NGOs opened a temporary
Fair-Trade Café at the yearly green festival Ökofeszt