ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a project on the governance of Fairtrade schemes and their impact on local producers, which involves a number of people at Queen Mary, University of London and at York University in the UK. The project has a number of commodities and countries in its purview. The main thrust of the project is that it is the governance – organizational arrangements and agency issues associated with those arrangements – rather than purely the price mechanisms that have been significant in the Fairtrade scheme. And that where they work, it is the governance arrangements as well as the price mechanisms that have the potential to deliver impacts both directly and indirectly to local communities.
