Le mouvement du commerce équitable et la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique

Abstract

Fair trade is one of the oldest contemporary socio-economic movements. It contributes to a better inclusion of social conditionalities of developing countries producers in world trade. While the notion of equity is spreading worldwide, this civil society movement seems to ignore the principle of « fair and equitable sharing » of genetic resources included in the Convention on Biological Diversity. This paper studies the differentiated application of the principles of the CBD by private sector, companies and labels, and fair trade players. It concludes to the opportunity of an update of the approaches developed by the fair trade movement, including the issues of the valorization of biodiversity and related traditional knowledge.