The correct answer is A) the demand for handicrafts was wearing off.
The practice of fair trade spread from handicrafts to food because the demand for handicrafts was wearing off.
We are talking about the times of the Mayas in the Yucatán peninsula, modern-day México and some parts of Belize and Guatemala. Trade was an important activity for the Mayas because they did not belong to one unified empire, but they established many city-states. They had to develop relationships and trade between them in order to prosper.