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Friday, October 14, 2016

Key principles of Lift Fair trade

We will move -as a practice- the traditional perspective of "commitment" and "trade" to allocate our personal participation and responsibility in the micro-actions within nano-economic steps to model and test what our independent mind can accomplish and profit from. Traditionally we've been told to think about "them" and not "me", this training moves the "I, me and myself" into a position of action, reaction, commitment and responsibility in my daily patterns of life when me, myself and I lift fair trade.

The Key Principles of Fair Trade


The WFTO has created ten principles that Fair Trade Organisations must follow in their day-to-day work, and carries out monitoring to ensure these principles are maintained:
  1. Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
    Fair Trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system.
  2. Transparency and Accountability
    Fair Trade involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners.
  3. Trade Relations
    Fair Trade organisations trade with concern for the social, economic and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers and do not maximize profit at their expense. They maintain long-term relationships based on solidarity, trust and mutual respect that contribute to the promotion and growth of Fair Trade. An interest-free pre-payment of at least 50% is made if requested.
  4. Payment of a Fair Price
    A fair price in the regional or local context is one that has been agreed through dialogue and participation. It covers not only the costs of production but enables production which is socially just and environmentally sound. It provides fair pay to the producers, and takes into account the principle of equal pay for equal work by women and men. Fair Traders ensure prompt payment to their partners and, whenever possible, help producers with access to pre-harvest or pre-production financing.
  5. Child Labour
    Fair Trade organisations respect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as local laws and social norms in order to ensure that the participation of children in production processes of fairly traded articles (if any) does not adversely affect their well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play. Organisations working directly with informally organised producers disclose the involvement of children in production.
  6. Non-Discrimination, Gender Equity and Freedom of Association The organisation does not discriminate in hiring, remuneration, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, caste, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, union membership, political affiliation, HIV/Aids status or age. Fair Trade means that women's work is properly valued and rewarded. Women are always paid for their contribution to the production process and are empowered in their organisations.
  7. Working Conditions
    Fair Trade means a safe and healthy working environment for producers. The participation of children (if any) does not adversely affect their well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play and conforms to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the law and norms in the local context.
  8. Capacity Building
    Fair Trade is a means to develop producers' independence. Fair Trade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organisations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets.
  9. Promoting Fair Trade
    Fair Trade organisations raise awareness of Fair Trade and the possibility of greater justice in world trade. They provide their customers with information about the organisation, the products, and in what conditions they are made. They use honest advertising and marketing techniques, and aim for the highest standards in product quality and packing.
  10. The Environment
    Fair Trade actively encourages better environmental practices and the application of responsible methods of production.
source: trade-fair-NZ

LFT-Australia's take on these principles
The mind is the first boss of our actions, therefore we must extrapolate the terminology using genetic algorithmic reaction lifting fair trade to our day to day re-actions before we can control the activities we'd like to reproduce.
Here's a basic example:

The Key Principles when we Lift Fair Trade 

You will create ten principles to Lift Fair Trade in your day-to-day actions, and will be monitoring to ensure these principles are maintained. IN these principles, the "producer" is my mind", the "organisation" is my identity or person, the 'partner', the 'child' is my inner-child, and so on:
  1. Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
    'The producer is my mind', producing thoughts and reactions every second. I need to give a purpose to move from a marginalized perspective of 'poor thoughts' to a more positive perspective seeking a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development for third parties that are not directly connected to me or my goals. Its purpose is to create opportunities for other who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system.
  2. Transparency and Accountability
    To Lift Fair Trade in my online/offline actions, involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners. 'The trading partner' are other people's minds that we need to respect by showing care and kindness.
  3. Trade Relations
    Fair Trade people trade with concern for the social, economic and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers and do not maximize profit at their expense. They maintain long-term relationships based on solidarity, trust and mutual respect that contribute to the promotion and growth of Lifting more Fair Trade. An interest-free pre-payment of at least 50% is made if requested.
  4. Share of a Fair Price
    A fair price in the regional or local context is one that has been agreed through dialogue and participation. It covers not only the costs of mental production but enables ideas which are socially just and environmentally sound. It provides fair share to the mind producers, and takes into account the principle of equal share for equal work by women and men. Lift Fair Traders ensure prompt payment to their partners and, whenever possible, help ideas' producers with access to pre-harvest or pre-production financing.
  5. My Inner-Child participation
    My Fair Trade persona respects my inner-child in production processes of fairly traded mental re-actions to ensure that they do not adversely affect my inner-child well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play. People working directly with others must disclose the involvement of their inner-children in mental production and their needs.
  6. Non-Discrimination, Thinking Equity or doing different: The people does not discriminate in respecting others points of view. Following the translation of the Colombian Constitution by the indigenous communities of that country: "Article 11: No one may be subjected to cruel, inhuman treatment or enforced disappearance .... And indigenous translated: -no one can take anyone over his heart, or do evil in a person that thinks or says different-". from Jaime Garzon
  7. Working Conditions
    Lift Fair Trade means a safe and healthy working environment for the mind. The participation of my inner-children is empowered by enabling  rules to not adversely affect my inner-child well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play.
  8. Capacity Building
    Lift Fair Trade is a means to develop my mental independence. Lift Fair Trade relationships provide continuity, during which my mind and potential can improve their management skills and their access to new potentials.
  9. Promoting Lift Fair Trade:
    Lift Fair Trade people raise awareness of Fair Trade and the possibility of greater justice in the world. They provide their audience with information about the people, the ideas, and in what conditions they are made. They use honest advertising and marketing techniques, and aim for the highest standards in ideas quality and sharing.
  10. The Commitment to Peace as 'my Environment'
    Lift Fair Trade actively encourages better peaceful practices and the application of responsible methods of mental creation of ideas.

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