Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture

Taylor & Francis

Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian AgricultureThe Hidden Realities\nAuthor(s): Rie Makita, Tadasu Tsuruta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138653146, 978-1138653146\nSynopsis\nIn 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 Asia.