Nowadays, we have a lot of unfairtrade in our society.

Despite rapid
globalization and the call by developed countries for free trade, producers in
developing countries are not getting a fair deal, especially in agricultural production.
Farmers rely on the weather and natural resources, because these elements cannot
be control. However, there is a more serious problem they have to face, Market
fluctuations. For example, the price of coffee, a key commodity in developing
countries, dropped 50% in 2003 to around US$0.5 per pound. Consequently, a coffee
farmer in Ethiopia could only earn less than US$1 per day.
The unequal distribution of power between producers and merchants is another
source of causing problems. Since it is very difficult for smallholders to obtain market
information and their small scale cannot directly find buyers, they rely on
intermediaries to help sell their products to the international market. Under this
circumstance, some farmers cannot switch to planting other agricultural products
without sufficient technology and capital constraints. They are facing the dilemma of
becoming poorer as they cultivate. These unfair trade clauses have also affected the
living space of farmers.
Re-discussion on the Exploitation in the Process of Futures Market and
Commodity Production. After a commodity is sold from raw materials, it usually
needs to be processed. In the process of processing these commodities, we will
agree that workers need to be protected by labor laws, and sweatshops or
distributors that exploit labor are not recognized by the society. Therefore, in the
commodity production and processing system, the only systematic and systematic
exploitation that has not been recognized by consumers is the exploitation of farmers
by the futures market (a centralized market for agricultural products). On the surface
of the futures market, the risk of supply imbalance is dispersed, but the real situation
is that market participants (speculators, merchants, excluding producers) use price,
the most economical and sensitive signal and "invisible hand" to dispersely make
decisions locally, achieving the optimal allocation of resources and profits while
pursuing the maximization of individual profits. When the price of the commodity is
decoupled from the value of the commodity, the way farmers can increase their
income is not to improve quality but to yield. They set up a trap that allows farmers
to chase production and then buy them at low prices to make huge profits. The
hidden external cost is very huge.
A free market without a bottom line will make farmers fall into vicious free
competition that cannot stand up, and also put our ecological environment into a
situation of continuous exploitation. Therefore, that’s why we have a global fairtrade
movement.