A Fair Price?

Fair-trade, organic farming, sustainably sourced. These are such buzzwords these days- but do they actually ensure the farmer gets a fair price?

The fundamental question is- who decides food prices? Corporations do, but so do consumers. In the end, it's a market, and we can only be charged what we're willing to pay. So how come we all seem to have agreed to pay good money for clothes but not food? At what point did farming becoming synonymous with poverty?

We aren't willing to pay a fair price, but continue to debate the future of food, and sustainable farming techniques. Surely we need to provide the right incentives to motivate farmers that go beyond publishing the merits in journals that a few hundred people world-wide will read (skim)?