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Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture

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Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture

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The Hidden Realities

Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture

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Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture book

The Hidden Realities
ByRie Makita, Tadasu Tsuruta
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 17 March 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622941
Pages 172
eBook ISBN 9781315622941
Subjects Area Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability, Geography
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Makita, R., & Tsuruta, T. (2017). Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture: The Hidden Realities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622941

ABSTRACT

In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South. This book is unique for two reasons. First, in contrast to existing studies that have tended to examine Fair Trade and organic certification as independent systems, the studies presented in this book reveal their joint application within actual production settings, demonstrating the greater complexity entailed in these double certification systems through the generation of contradictions and tensions compared with single certification systems. Second, the authors, who are both Asian, reveal the realities of applying Fair Trade and organic certification systems within Asian agriculture. In doing so, they challenge the fact that most Fair Trade studies have been undertaken by Western scholars who have tended to focus on Latin American and African producers. Drawing on a wealth of grounded case studies conducted in India, Thailand, and the Philippines, this pioneering study on double certification makes a significant contribution to studies on Fair Trade and organic agriculture beyond Asia.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

Fair Trade and organic agriculture

A case from South India

chapter 3|21 pages

Fair Trade, organic, and genetically modified organisms

A case from Central India

chapter 4|21 pages

Plantation management and workers

A case from Darjeeling, India

chapter 5|31 pages

Social movements and commercial certification

A case from Thailand

chapter 6|23 pages

Certification-supported farming and other diversified livelihoods

A case from the Philippines

chapter 7|9 pages

Conclusion

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