The Fair Price Research programme is focused on the methodology how to calculate fair prices for smallholder farms. The methodology developed takes as point of departure that also the small farmer must receive a Living Income for his/her work, in line with the UN Declaration of Human Rights. To ensure the peasant of a decent income, prices received by the farmers appear to be a major problem. Therefore there was a demand for the development of a methodology to calculate the price the farmer should receive for his/her main products.

The conceptual step from Living Income to a Fair Price for agricultural products has so far been taken by few.  InfoBridge has been among the first in the development of a methodology to calculate a Fair Price for agricultural products in order to enable the producer to earn a Living Income. Research in the field of Fair Prices and Fair Wages has started with a publication ‘Fair Prices and Wages’ about artisans in India in ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ in 2004. The methodology used in that article has been further developed and applied to the case of small farmers: ‘the Living Income / Fair Price approach’.

A book 'The Economics of Human Rights - Using the Living Income / Fair Price Approach to combat Poverty' has been published in December 2020. In addition to an explanation of the approach the book contains case-studies and analyses on the consequences of the introduction of fair prices on different groups of the population. It provides new insights on how to combine economic theory and ethics, and how to formulate policies to combat the roots of poverty.

Recently a Chapter 'Fair-trade coffee: how fair is 'fair?' has been published in the book "Climate-smart production of coffee: Achieving sustainability and ecosystem services" (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science,111).
The publication in now available at this website with permission of the Burleigh Dodds. Download here.

In December 2023 a new paper on Fair Prices has been published by InfoBridge Foundation: 'Fair Prices: Prices based on Human Rights'. The paper can be downloaded here.

Coordinator Fair Price Research: Ruud Bronkhorst, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..