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

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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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  From bean to cup: how consumer choice impacts upon coffee producers and the environment

  Consumers International, 2006

  This report that examines consumer awareness of the impact of sustainable certified coffees on producers and the environment. In doing so it takes into account five different certification schemes: fair trade, organic, Rain Forest Alliance, Utz Kapeh, bird friendly. Research on coffee production was carried out in Brazil and Vietnam, the two largest producers of coffee.
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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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  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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  Revaluing peasant coffee production: organic and fair trade markets in Mexico

  Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2005

  The emergence of significant new markets for organic and “fairly traded” products has been hailed as an important part of the effort to address the chronic poverty suffered by many small-scale coffee producers in the developing world.
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  Achieving fairness in trading between supermarkets and their agrifood supply chains

  UK Food Group, 2005

  This paper reviews the opportunities and risks in incorporating fairness into mainstream trading between supermarkets and their agrifood supply chains.
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  Establishing CSR drivers in agribusiness

  International Finance Corporation, 2005

  This articles explores drivers, incentives and constraints at different points of the agricultural supply chains. In doing so it highlights the business case of CSR at the microlevel of the different points of the supply chain, but also moves beyond that by exploring the business case for a country’s economy as a whole.
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  Tea break: a crisis brewing in India

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This report assesses the conditions on India’s tea plantations, which are characterised by poverty, hunger and a denial of workers’ rights. The report highlights that since the late 1990s, at least 60,000 workers have lost their jobs as tea prices have fallen and plantations have closed down. Tens of thousands of workers are threatened by further closures.
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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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  Ethical decision making in fair trade companies

  International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, 2003

  This paper reports on a study of ethical decision-making in a fair trade company.

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