A world shop is a specialist shop of the fair trade. A goal of the work of the world shops is it to contribute to more justice in the trade with the countries of the south. In order to achieve this goal, world shops sell products of fair trade, take part in political campaigns and carry information and education work out to questions of the fair trade.

World shops in Germany

In addition some thousand groups of actions without firm shop come.

World shops offer the among other things following goods: Coffee, dte, honey, spices, orange juice, bananas, clothes, food, arts and crafts

The goods are mostly bought to the El the Puente GmbH of the Gepa (society for the promotion of the partnership with the third world ltd.), dwp e.G. or or directly from groups of self-helps in the developing countries. Beside gepa, dwp and El Puente gives it still further import organizations in the fair trade. Most of you were evaluated in the ATO of the world shop roof federation on the basis conventions.

Frequently the goods are offered also with celebrations and markets on stands.

History

World shops developed first due to the action third world trade, which was created 1970 by the working group of the Evangelist youth and the federation of the German catholic youth for the support of groups of actions of development policy.

Criticism

The model of the world shops was criticized because of alleged Ineffizienz with the reaching of its goals, since the conversion of the shops is so small that it does not have a real effect on the world trade. For the defense of the model it is answered that used despite the world market meaning lacking the trade partners of the shops in third world today usually the expression a world. one helps completely concretely to improve and its living conditions. In addition the reproach, the operators is is itself not the illusion of a change hang-evenly, by trying to undertake concretely somewhat against it more paradoxical - one criticize thus the actual work with the fact that it (still) is not sufficient.

Meanwhile with the TransFair seal certified fair acted goods also in supermarkets and department stores sold, so that the paragraph channels are extended. Both in the world shops and in the supermarkets the conversions with fair acted goods rise for years.

Other aspects and further criticism are treated under fair trade.

Sources

See also

• Market (economics)

Related links

• World loading oh federation Germany
• World loading oh federation Austria
• World shop on the left of: World shops in Germany on-line
• Network of European world shops (NEWS!)

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