Ethical Purchasing
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 28-12-12 17:04
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- Ethical Purchasing
- when the customer has considered the social and environmental costs of production of food, goods or services when purchasing
- Fair Trade
- strategy to decrease the economic unfairness of globalisation
- consumers can choose to buy fair trade coffee so more of they money goes to the producers of the coffee beans
- Other examples: chocolate, bananas, wine and some clothing
- this means more money goes to poorer workers
- as number of schemes grow it becomes hard to monitor how "fair" they are
- Ethically Sourced Goods
- people can avoid purchasing items that have been produced by exploited workers in "sweatshops"
- Gap received bad publicity in 1990s due to poor working conditions of Indonesian staff
- made them introduce stricter regulations for overseas operations
- goods produced by a "third party" for TNCs may have used "sweatshop" labour
- outsourcing and supply chains among TNCs make codes of practice hard to enforce
- Charitable Donations and International Aid
- Governments give aid
- NGO's e.g. Oxfam and Christian Aid collect money from public to address the economic unfairness of globalisation
- Band Aid
- Raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia
- raised around £100 million in 1980's
- 2004-2005 money given to people living in Sudan's Darfur region
- Raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia
- poor nations can become dependent on aid
- can make it difficult for emerging businesses to profit
- Zambia - clothing manufacturers have gone bankrupt due to free 2nd hand clothing donated by OECD charities
- Trade Reforms
- Governments and international lobbying organisations have attempted to improve trade for poor nations
- such as rules regulating import and exports of agricultural produce
- Protesters make their case for change at World Trade Organisations and G8 confrences
- hiuge subsidies paid to European farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
- protective trade tariffs encircling the EU force up the cost of imported African goods.
- changing the rules would help African farmers
- protective trade tariffs encircling the EU force up the cost of imported African goods.
- Commission for Africa
- drawn attention for the need for reforms of subsidies, tariffs and non-tariff barriers to poorer nations
- European farmers resist measures that open markets for greater competition as it could threaten their livelihoods
- Governments and international lobbying organisations have attempted to improve trade for poor nations
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