How effective is Fair Trade as a tool for the stabilization of agricultural commodity markets? case of coffee in the Czech Republic

Agricultural Economics (Czech Republic)

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-18

  Hejkrlík, Jiří ^a   Mazancová, Jana ^a   Forejtová, Karolína ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Commodity; Efficiency; Fairtrade premium; Organic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874341255     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/41/2012-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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