From Wikipedia (yes, please don’t cite from Wikipedia, at least look at their sources):

Fair Trade: is an arrangement designed to help producers in growing countries achieve sustainable and equitable trade relationships. Members of the Fair Trade movement add the payment of higher prices to exporters, as well as improved social and environmental standard...


1.) producers have the power to express unity with consumers
2.) world trade practices that currently exist promote the unequal distribution of wealth between nations
3.) buying products from producers in developing countries at a fair price is a way more efficient way of promoting sustainable development than traditional aid and charity.