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    How fair is ethical trade? A look at Uganda’s organic cotton sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Ethical trade can be used to describe any trading relationship where social and environmental criteria are used, in addition to the purely economic, to measure performance. What impact has fair trade practice had on rural livelihoods in Uganda? What is needed to sustain such projects?
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    Poverty alleviation through participation in fair trade coffee networks: existing research and critical issues

    Fair Trade Research Group, Colorado State University, 2002
    This is a background paper for a research paper on the poverty alleviation effects of fair trade coffee.
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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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    The coffee crisis

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
    This document briefly analyses the factors behind the coffee crisis, and highlights some of the options available to farmers, producing country governments and the donor community.The author promotes the short-term solution of withdrawing low-quality coffee beans from the international market and asserts that solving the current crisis requires:improving coffee qualityraising the re
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    Ethical trade: a review of developments and issues

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 1999
    Ethical trade is a fast growing area in terms of literature and practice. This article takes an overview of what is happening in the field, including the unpublished debates of many of ethical trade’s key players. The paper identifies the common ground between sectoral approaches, examining work from forestry, fairtrade, agriculture and the apparel industry.
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    Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Explores the actual and potential contribution ethical trade can make to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods. Summary report includes a description of ethical trade (Section 2), followed by an analysis of the building blocks and trade-offs that affect participation in ethical trade (Section 3).
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    Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods: Volta River Estates Fairtrade bananas case study

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001
    Uses Volta River Estates Ltd. (Ghana) as a case study into ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods. This organisation is a Fairtrade banana exporter.The VREL example suggests that plantations can increase livelihood opportunities for certain groups of people without negatively affecting the natural resource base.

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