NPR, which is to say Liberals/Progressives/Communists, have been pushing the idea of turning all cocoa producing farms into ‘cooperatives’. Then, supposedly, they could set the price of cocoa beans to a ‘realistic’ level so the poverty stricken farmers could get what they should for their crops. NPR was rhapsodizing about this scheme several years ago. Americans were supposed to boycott chocolate and only buy it at artificially inflated prices...with the profit going to South American poor folk. They discussed the same scheme vis a vis coffee.
So would this be “fair trade” chocolate and coffee? I’ve seen that term bandied about, but hadn’t paid much attention.