Africa needs Fair Trade not Aid

I truly believe that Africa's path out of poverty should be focused on new technologies and appropriate business models. Nevertheless , I would like to take a minute to talk about a non-technology related organization that would help Africa in the same way.
Agriculture employs 50% of the population in developing countries and constitutes more than 33% of their GDP. Yet, Africans are not able to make a decent living through crops culture. A social movement called Fair Trade aims to remediate this situation. The Fair Trade movement is backed by the international Fair Trade Association. Its goal is to promote fair price for developing country's agricultural products sold to developed country. African farmers rarely get a fair price for their crops for many reasons. They lack as access to market information, to markets and credit thus they are unable to adapt production techniques in responses to market information. The result is obvious. African crops are always undervalued and underpriced in the global market. Fair Trade establish a minimum price that correctly reflect the cost of production . They provide farmers with perfect market information to bargain for the true value of their crops.
With the money gain from Fair Trade a lot of farmers are able to develop their communities create schools , small hospitals and bring clean water and electricity to their household. Let's help this initiative by buying products originating from Fair Trade farmers.
Fair Trade certified products sales surpassed 2.3 billions and more than 6 millions disadvantaged farmers in developing countries were able to fund community development projects from Fair Trade certified products sales.