When Consumption Heals Producers: The Effects of Fair Trade on Marginalized Producers
Journal title QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria
Author/s Leonardo Becchetti, Giuseppina Gianfreda
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/3
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 7-24 File size 303 KB
DOI 10.3280/QU2011-003001
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Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an "ethical premium" for the social and environmental value of fair trade (FT) products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed to enhance wellbeing and capacity building of marginalised producers) relates to producers’ health and creation of healthy working conditions. We evaluate its significance by comparing days lost for illness by FT- and non-Ftaffiliated Kenyan farmers. We find that FT-affiliation years have a significant effect, in the expected direction, on producers’ health, after controlling for selection bias.
Keywords: Fair trade, Health, Impact studies, Organic farming
Jel codes: O190, O220, D64, I100
Leonardo Becchetti, Giuseppina Gianfreda, Quando il consumo cura il produttore: gli effetti del commercio equo e solidale sui produttori marginalizzati in "QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria" 3/2011, pp 7-24, DOI: 10.3280/QU2011-003001