Fair trade
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Organic and fair-trade certification: assessing impact on MDG achievement
- S. Setboonsarng / ADB Institute, 2008
- The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achi...
- How small-scale coffee producers benefit from Fair Trade?
- B. Slob / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
- The report presents the value chain analysis of Fair Trade in coffee. Taking a closer look at the value chains of mainstream coffee and Fair Trade coffee, the report demonstrates how added value is distributed along these value chains...
- What is the fair trade? Fair Trade or free trade?
- M. Sidwell / Adam Smith Institute, 2008
- "Fair Trade" is used to describe all generic attempts to make global trade serve poor farmers better, through labelling schemes. The Fair Trade movement comprises a number of organisations that encourage the sale of retail Fair Trade ...
- Do fair trade brands represent a superior approach to fair trade mainstreaming?
- A. Hutchens / Center for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (ANU), 2007
- This paper notes that Fair Trade has undergone exponential growth in recent years, largely because of the expansion of Fairtrade certified food products in mainstream distribution and retail channels. It argues that mainstreaming-as-p...
- Is fair trade an effective mechanism for raising incomes of the poor?
- K. Poe; S. Kyle / Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2006
- This paper analyses the extent to which fair trade organisations increase wages for rural poor women. Based on information gathered from interviews with senior-level managers and artisans in Bangladesh, it presents case studies ...
- Fair and green trade: practical experiences from around the world
- K. Hampson (ed); J. Chavez-Tafur (ed); M. Salm (ed) / Agri Cultures Network, 2008
- What exactly is the impact of fair trade initiatives on small scale producers? And what are the problems and issues that arise during the complex process of putting fair trade ideas into practice? With the recent expansion of fair and...
- Eradicating poverty- the contribution of fair trade schemes in forestry products
- V. Nelson; C. Collinson / Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2008
- This paper examines the contribution that fair trade schemes in forestry products make to eradicate poverty. It considers the wider impacts on the local economy and explores successes, difficulties and limitations based on two case st...
- What support is needed to build a market for fair trade timber?
- D. Macqueen / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008
- Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this. It argues that a partnership with the fair trade movement could help Community Forest ...
- Waitrose and its responsible sourcing principles: a success story
- Business in the Community, UK, 2006
- Waitrose has established a set of ‘responsible sourcing principles’, outlining its expectations of its suppliers on issues such as labour standards, environmental management and animal welfare. This brief paper examines th...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Organic and fair-trade certification: assessing impact on MDG achievement
- S. Setboonsarng / ADB Institute, 2008
- The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achi...
- How small-scale coffee producers benefit from Fair Trade?
- B. Slob / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
- The report presents the value chain analysis of Fair Trade in coffee. Taking a closer look at the value chains of mainstream coffee and Fair Trade coffee, the report demonstrates how added value is distributed along these value chains...
- What is the fair trade? Fair Trade or free trade?
- M. Sidwell / Adam Smith Institute, 2008
- "Fair Trade" is used to describe all generic attempts to make global trade serve poor farmers better, through labelling schemes. The Fair Trade movement comprises a number of organisations that encourage the sale of retail Fair Trade ...
- Do fair trade brands represent a superior approach to fair trade mainstreaming?
- A. Hutchens / Center for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (ANU), 2007
- This paper notes that Fair Trade has undergone exponential growth in recent years, largely because of the expansion of Fairtrade certified food products in mainstream distribution and retail channels. It argues that mainstreaming-as-p...
- Is fair trade an effective mechanism for raising incomes of the poor?
- K. Poe; S. Kyle / Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2006
- This paper analyses the extent to which fair trade organisations increase wages for rural poor women. Based on information gathered from interviews with senior-level managers and artisans in Bangladesh, it presents case studies ...
- Fair and green trade: practical experiences from around the world
- K. Hampson (ed); J. Chavez-Tafur (ed); M. Salm (ed) / Agri Cultures Network, 2008
- What exactly is the impact of fair trade initiatives on small scale producers? And what are the problems and issues that arise during the complex process of putting fair trade ideas into practice? With the recent expansion of fair and...
- Eradicating poverty- the contribution of fair trade schemes in forestry products
- V. Nelson; C. Collinson / Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2008
- This paper examines the contribution that fair trade schemes in forestry products make to eradicate poverty. It considers the wider impacts on the local economy and explores successes, difficulties and limitations based on two case st...
- What support is needed to build a market for fair trade timber?
- D. Macqueen / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008
- Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this. It argues that a partnership with the fair trade movement could help Community Forest ...
- Waitrose and its responsible sourcing principles: a success story
- Business in the Community, UK, 2006
- Waitrose has established a set of ‘responsible sourcing principles’, outlining its expectations of its suppliers on issues such as labour standards, environmental management and animal welfare. This brief paper examines th...
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