国际公平贸易运动:一个南北贸易的新潮流

公平贸易作为南北贸易的一种新型贸易形式,走过了70多年的发展历程,并取得了瞩目的成绩。公平贸易促进了南方国家的可持续发展,其产品成为南方国家小生产者和劳动工人开辟北方国家市场的主要工具。本文从公平贸易的发展历程、公平贸易网络和成员组织、公平贸易的参与者和运作机制三个方面展现出公平贸易的全貌,并对公平贸易在原则、标签、消费市场、发展中国家长期比较优势方面所面临的挑战进行分析。

Global Fair Trade: New Trend of North-South Trade

As a new trade form of north-south trade, fair trade has a seventy years’ history. During these years, it has achieved great successes. The fair trade of agricultural products and food has emerged as an important tool to create markets for poor and small-scale farmers and simultaneously promote pro-poor development. This paper introduces fair trade comprehensively about its history of development, networking and membership organizations, and participants and operating mechanisms, and then analyses the challenges in terms of the principle of fair trade, fair trade labeling, consumer markets and the long term comparative advantages of the developing countries the fair trade facing.