Would the “Fair trade” in developing countrys work in Britain to help save dairy farmers?
What fair trade works in is shifting production from subsidized industries in industrialized nations to unsubsidized industries in developing nations. While this generally means the detriment of workers in industrialized nations and benefit of the workers in developing nations, I don’t think this would be so in Britain’s dairy farmers, particularly because of the nature of dairy as a product. As a highly perishable good, you will find that local production in many areas is preferable. Moreover, structurally the bulk of dairy production supplied to developing nations as an export from the West comes from Denmark, and so if anyone would be affected, it’d be Danish dairy farmers. Finally, there are particular products that other nations cannot replace; can you really make a good Cheddar outside of Britain (Cheddar in the U.S. is laughable)? Indeed, it’s impossible to find a Gloucester or Stilton made outside of Europe, and tastes preclude Hungarian cheese from breaking strongly in the mar
