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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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    Creating market opportunities for small enterprises: experiences of the fair trade movement

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This paper assesses the successes and lessons learned in Fair Trade to date.
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    Do fair trade partnerships work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How effective are partnerships between fair trade organisations and producers? Do both sides have the same expectations of and priorities for these partnerships? Research by the University of Bradford reviews how fair trade, as practiced by alternative trading organisations (ATOs), evolved during the 1990s from a solidarity to a partnership model.
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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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    Who benefits from sustainable trade?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Environmental factors increasingly influence exports from developing countries. For some this can open up new trading opportunities but for others it presents new barriers and constraints. Is the net outcome of this environmentally-driven pattern of trading good for poverty elimination and development in general?
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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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    Challenges facing Fair Trade: which way now?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can Fair Trade (FT) continue to compete in the marketplace? What is the impact of the relationship between FT organisations (FTOs) and producers? How can FT substantiate its claims to benefit producers?
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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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    What future for forest people? Can ethical trade help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Forests and woodland still cover 35 percent of the world’s land area despite centuries of cutting trees. Forests contribute to biodiversity and are the ‘lungs of the earth’, natural capital sustaining the livelihoods of many. How does ethical trade and sustainable forestry affect forest livelihoods?
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    Corporate social responsibility: a business contribution to sustainable development

    European Parliament, 2003
    This report from the European Union calls on the need to make CSR an integral part of business culture and sets out to develop a European framework to be applicable globally, wherever European firms are active.Important requests in this report include:the creation of an agency which would be responsible for introducing a system for assessing and monitoring observance of international an

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