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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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  The challenges of assessing the poverty impact of ethical trading: what can be learnt from fair trade initiatives and the sustainable livelihoods approach?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This is a report of a workshop organised by DfID that consisted of a number of presentations and discussion around the impact of ethical trading on poverty.The presentation reported on in this document focused on difficulties with the monitoring and evaluation of ethical trading initiatives.
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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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  Facilitating market access for South Africa’s disadvantaged communities and population groups through “fair trade in tourism”

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  The report claims that the design, implementation and management of current community-based tourism initiatives in South Africa do not pay adequate attention to market access which, along with natural and cultural resource management, is ultimately the key to sustainable tourism.Tourism projects - guest houses, camping sites, lodges, tourist routes, shebeen tours, cultural villages and the like
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  Ethical consumers and ethical trade: a review of current literature

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001

  Reviews the large number of consumer surveys of ethical consumerism, and describes the different types of ethical consumer, their motivation and concerns, their willingness to pay an ethical premium, and the ways they learn about ethical products.
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  The 'latte revolution'?: winners and losers in the restructuring of the global coffee marketing chain

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2001

  This paper uses a Global Commodity Chain (GCC) approach to examine the transformation of the global coffee marketing chain and its repercussions in developing countries.The article:focuses on shifts that have occurred in the last two decades in the international coffee trade regime, on regulation at the domestic level in producing countries, and on changes in corporate strategies and co
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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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  Xarxa de Consum Solidari (Spanish fair trade / ethical business campaign) (Pangea)

  Pangea, 1999
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  Spilling the Beans: What's wrong with the coffee trade?

  Fairtrade Foundation, 1998

  Highlights the problems facing coffee farmers as a result of the way we trade in coffee. After examining how the trade operates, the report illustrates with testimonies its impact on the lives of farmers.

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