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  Gender and Codes of Conduct: A Case Study from Horticulture in South Africa

  Christian Aid, 2006

  Corporate codes of conduct have become an increasingly important issue, particularly since the formation of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) in 1997. Supermarkets are playing a key role within the ETI, and the main UK supermarkets are in the process of introducing codes of conduct to their suppliers.
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  A Gendered Value Chain Approach To Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture

  2003

  Codes of conduct designed to regulate the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets were rapidly adopted throughout the 1990s - especially in the horticulture sector linking European supermarkets with export firms in Africa.
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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco recently announced record profits of ?2 billion. But according to this study by ActionAid in South Africa, thousands of women casual workers growing fruit on farms accredited by Tesco are being exploited. Findings showed that farm workers are paid below the minimum wage, are exposed to pesticides, suffer food insecurity, and have poor quality housing.