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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Fair trade, Trade Policy

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  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 macroeconomic trends and challenges.
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  Unfair trade

  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 goods for which the producer receives guaranteed Fair Trade terms. This report argues that Fair Trade is unfair.
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  A cut above: building the market for fair trade timber

  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.
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  Who pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty

  ActionAid International, 2007

  This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets to “cherry pick” suppliers from developing economies.
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  The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

  Development in Practice, 2006

  This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector.
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  Who reaps the fruit?: critical issues in the fresh fruit and vegetable chain

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  The report critically analyses the influence of trade and distribution on production and production conditions in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable sector.
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  Power in global value chains: implications for employment and livelihoods in the cashew nut industry in India

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This report explores the impacts of an expanding global market for cashew nuts on the livelihoods of women workers in the cashew processing industry in India.
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  Fair trade: gender makes the difference

  IUCN Environmental Law Programme, The World Conservation Union, Bonn, 2004

  This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective. Taking account of gender in fair trade is one way to ensure that women are recognised in and paid a fair wage for their contribution to agricultural and production processes.
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  Broad-basing Fair Trade in India: entrepreneurship of women, artisan and weaver groups

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper describes some existing opportunities for directly connecting Fair Trade with new social groups of poor producers. It also highlights how these opportunities play a positive role in addressing sustainable livelihoods, poverty reduction and attainment of Millennium Development Goals. The case study presented in this paper focuses on India.
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  The EU Corporate Trade Agenda: the role and the interests of corporations and their lobby groups in trade policy-making in the European Union

  War on Want, 2005

  This paper aims to focus on the three most relevant and most controversial issues at the end of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations – services, agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA).

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