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

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    Fair shares for all: ethical trading

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Ethical trade in fresh produce offers poor farmers the potential for better income generation opportunities. However, do the criteria and tools for ethical trade, driven by western ideals, represent the perspectives of poor people involved in export horticulture?
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    Towards a coherent fair trade policy: fair trade demands to European decision makers

    The International Fair Trade Association, 2005
    This brief highlights the need for a coherent European fair trade policy.
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    Globalisation, urbanisation and changing food systems in developing countries

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004
    As part of the FAO ‘State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004’, this chapter explores how the profound demographic and economic changes are rapidly transforming food systems and the scope and nature of nutritional challenges in the developing world.Key findings of the study include:following rapid urbanisation, rising income and rapid growth in imports of wheat and other commodities, t
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    Dealing with the coffee crisis in Central America: impacts and strategies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
    The paper deals with the impacts and strategies to deal with the crisis in the coffee sectors (of Latin American countries).
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    Sustainable coffee trade: the role of coffee contracts

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    The paper provides an overview of the role of contracts as instruments to catalyse sustainable development within the coffee sector.In order to do so, the paper provides an overview of the diverse contractual systems currently in use in the coffee sector, highlighting the distinctiveness between “conventional” standard form contracts typically used as a basis for transactions in mainstream phys
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    Coffee, co-operatives and competition: the impact of Fair Trade

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004
    Impact studies looking at the effectiveness of Fair Trade initiatives on increasing the welfare of coffee producers have predominantly shown that the system is working well. This study focuses on the Fair Trade system’s use of democratically run coffee cooperatives to reach small scale producers.
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    Coffee markets: new paradigms in global supply and demand

    World Bank, 2004
    This report examines the changing environment for coffee producers and argues that in the current situation of liberalised markets and decreasing state support for agriculture, it will be increasingly incumbent upon producer and trade organisations to provide the necessary services for themselves.The paper examines a growing response to the coffee crisis; the development of "differentiated" cof
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    The ethical consumerism report 2003

    New Economics Foundation, 2003
    This report reviews the state and evolution of ethical consumerism in the UK in 2002.
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    Aid or Trade? Managing fair trade commercial and NGO partnerships

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Partnerships between commercial and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are creating new challenges for development practice in seeking to promote 'fair trade' between producers in the South and western consumers. Joint ventures that try to combine commercial and development objectives produce distinct problems, however.
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    Ethically sustainable? Trade and rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is ethical trade contributing to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods? What are the strengths and weaknesses of ethical trade schemes (ETS)?

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