Anannya Bhattacharjee, Intl Coordinator for Asia Floor Wage Alliance says:
“We need to redistribute the power of consumption so that we restore balance and the whole world consumes in a sustainable way. That’s why in just transition, you need higher wages. You raise everybody’s ability to buy the things they need. Democratizing purchasing power or consumption power automatically leads to a higher standard of human rights and cost of living across the globe, reducing the growing inequalities that we read about. The workers themselves should be able to consume what they’re producing.”
In terms of the livelihood of farmers in poor farmers, one significant issue is that the US alone provides three billion dollars of subsidies to US cotton farmers each year bringing down the global market price of cotton by 25 percent.
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