Editing Fair trade (section)

=== Failure to monitor standards ===
There are complaints that fair trade standards are inappropriate and may harm producers, sometimes making them work several months more for little return.<ref name="EthicalObjections" />{{Self-published source|date=March 2015}}<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Utting-Chamorro | first1 = K | year = 2005 | title = Does Fairtrade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua | journal = Development in Practice | volume = 15 | issue = 3, 4 | pages = 584–599 | doi = 10.1080/09614520500075706 | s2cid = 154018501 }}</ref><ref>Moberg M (2005). "Fairtrade and Eastern Caribbean Banana Farmers: Rhetoric and Reality in the Anti-Globalization Movement." ''Human Organization'' 64:4–16, Cited in Nelson and Pound (2009) p.&nbsp;10.</ref><ref name="valkila2009" />

Enforcement of standards by Fairtrade was described as "seriously weak" by Christian Jacquiau.<ref name="Hamel">{{cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Fair_trade_firm_accused_of_foul_play.html?cid=5351232 |title=Fair trade firm accused of foul play |publisher=Swissinfo.ch |date=2006-08-03 |access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-date=2013-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214072048/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Fair_trade_firm_accused_of_foul_play.html?cid=5351232 |url-status=live }}</ref> Paola Ghillani, who spent four years as president of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations, agreed that "certain arguments carry some weight".<ref name="Hamel" /> There are many complaints of poor enforcement: labourers on Fairtrade farms in Peru are paid less than the minimum wage;<ref>Weitzman, H. (2006, August 9). "'Fair' coffee workers paid below minimum wage." ''Financial Times''
* Weitzman, H. (2006, September 9). "Ethical-coffee' workers paid below legal minimum." ''Financial Times''.</ref> some non-Fairtrade coffee is sold as Fairtrade<ref name="ft.com">{{Citation |url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d191adbc-3f4d-11db-a37c-0000779e2340.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d191adbc-3f4d-11db-a37c-0000779e2340.html |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription | newspaper =FT | place = Americas | title = The bitter cost of 'fair trade' coffee| date =2006-09-08 }}</ref> "the standards are not very strict in the case of seasonally hired labour in coffee production."<ref name="valkila2009" /> "[S]ome fair trade standards are not strictly enforced."<ref name="Reed" /><ref>Moore, G., Gibbon, J., & Slack, R.: 2006, "The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective," ''Journal of Strategic Marketing'', 14, 329–52.</ref> In 2006, a ''[[Financial Times]]'' journalist found that ten out of ten mills visited had sold uncertified coffee to co-operatives as certified. It reported on "evidence of at least one coffee association that received an organic, Fair Trade or other certifications despite illegally growing some 20 per cent of its coffee in protected national forest land."<ref name="ft.com" />