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  Tainted harvest: child labor and obstacles to organizing on Ecuador's banana plantations

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  Looks at how multinationals purchasing bananas in Ecuador are able to avoid direct responsibility for the harsh conditions endured by workers (including children). They achieve this by using a large number of third-party Ecuadorian producers.
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  Environment’s new role in U.S. trade policy

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  This policy briefing reviews the Trade Policy Act (TPA) of 2002 and highlights how it integrates environmental policy priorities into U.S.
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  The global coffee crisis: a threat to sustainable development

  International Coffee Organization, 2002

  Although the coffee business is booming in consuming developed countries, current rock bottom prices are causing immense hardship to countries where coffee is a key economic activity, as well as to the farmers who produce it.The ICO attributes the current crisis to an imbalance between supply and demand.
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  It’s your choice!: influencing more sustainable patterns of production and consumption in the UK

  Stakeholder Forum, 2002

  This report considers progress made towards sustainable production and consumption, across sectors, since the Rio Summit.
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  Value chains: lessons from the Kenya tea and Indonesia cocoa sectors

  Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, UK, 2002

  Managing responsibility in value chains entails enabling companies to protect their reputations and ensure stable supply, while increasing benefits to producers.
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  Government and corporate social responsibility: an overview of selected Canadian, European and international practices

  Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, 2001

  An overview of the support a selection of governments are providing to businesses pursuing socially and environmentally responsible practices.The author states that there are significant and increasing pressures on business to show their sustainability, coming from:shifting social valuesincreasing consumer and shareholder activism strengthening local and international citizen ac
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  Global trade and consumer choices: coral reefs in crisis

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002

  The document contains five papers presented at a symposium.The first presents an overview of the value of coral reef ecosystems to developing countries the impacts of international trade on coral reefs and local communitiesthe role of the U.S.
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  Mugged: poverty in your coffee cup

  Oxfam, 2002

  With the price of coffee falling by almost 50% over the last three years, this paper reports on the negative impact on farming families, coffee traders and national economies.The authors find that the transformation from a managed coffee market, in which governments played an active role both nationally and internationally, to a free and unregulated market, has led to the following:the
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  War on Want, 2002

  The report provides the background to a War on Want Campaign that is pushing for cruise ship companies to drastically improve the pay and conditions of their workers.The document highlights the gap between the expectations and information given at recruitment and the reality of life as a crew member on board ship.The author provides an overview of the cruise industry and its growth before pr
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  HIV/AIDS, human resources and sustainable development

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2002

  By affecting the working-age population, the HIV/AIDS epidemic depletes human resources, distorts labour markets, disrupts production and consumption, and ultimately diminishes national wealth. In addition, the disease strikes the poor hardest: more than 95% of people living with HIV/AIDS are in low-income countries.

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