Editing Agricultural policy (section)

=== Fair trade ===
{{Further|Fair trade debate}}
Some advocate Fair Trade rules to ensure that poor farmers in developing nations that produce crops primarily for export are not exploited or negatively impacted by trade policies, practices, tariffs, and agreements which benefit one competitor at the expense of another - which advocates consider a dangerous "[[race to the bottom]]" in agricultural labor and safety standards. Opponents point out that most agriculture in developed nations is produced by industrial corporations (agribusiness) which are hardly deserving of sympathy, and that the alternative to exploitation is poverty.{{Citation needed|reason=Citation needed to support some of the conclusions|date=June 2012}}

Fair trade steak? Much of what developing countries export to the rich world, also comes from industrial corporations. The reason for that is, that rich countries have put up elaborate quality demands, most of whom make no factual health contribution.{{Citation needed|reason=Citation needed to support some of the conclusions|date=June 2012}} Small farmers often in effect meet these demands, but are rarely able to prove that in western standards.{{Citation needed|reason=Citation needed to support some of the conclusions|date=June 2012}} Therefore, the biggest impediment to the growth of small farming and therefore of fair trade in sectors beyond coffee and bananas, is these quality demands from the rich world.{{Citation needed|reason=Citation needed to support some of the conclusions|date=June 2012}}