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This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden […] View resource Briefing note EuroMed: Ensuring a fair deal 26/11/2005 4 documents 9 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Fair trade Trade policy Overview When the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euro-Med) was announced in Barcelona with a great fanfare in 1995, it was hoped that it would herald a new age in relations between the European Union (EU) and its ten southern Mediterranean partner countries, bringing unprecedented opportunities in the social, economic, and political fields. View resource Journal article Partnering for sustainability: Business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry 01/06/2005 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Fair trade Overview The movement to promote coffee produced in a sustainable way is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and market capitalism. In the wake of a worldwide coffee crisis in which prices have fallen to levels that do not support small-scale production or provide living wages for plantation workers, non-profit certifying and labelling […] View resource Journal article Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua 01/06/2005 16 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Fair trade Trade policy Overview Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible improvements in the lives of small coffee producers and their communities? This paper examines the […] View resource Briefing paper Critique of the European Commission’s Action Plan for African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries Affected by EU Sugar Reform 01/06/2005 1 documents 9 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Fair trade Livelihoods Overview In July 2004, the European Commission (EC) released its proposals for reform of the EU sugar regime. This document acknowledged that ‘the proposal would certainly imply adjustments in the sugar sector of the ACP [African, Caribbean, and Pacific] countries and India’ – countries which until now have had preferential and guaranteed access to high prices […] View resource Journal article Evaluating fair trade as a development project: methodological considerations 01/04/2005 17 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Fair trade M&E Monitoring and evaluation Overview This article identifies the need for an appropriate methodology for evaluating Fair Trade, given that most evaluations to date have been in-house or commissioned reviews and hence have not followed a consistent approach. Focusing on the development aspects of Fair Trade, the article reviews a range of impact evaluation methods and presents a detailed methodology […] View resource Briefing paper Dumping: The Beginning of the End? Implications of the ruling in the Brazil/US cotton dispute 05/08/2004 4 documents 22 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Fair trade Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview Despite their WTO commitments to reduce trade-distorting subsidies, the European Union and the United States have used loopholes and creative accounting to continue dumping products on world markets. In the case of US cotton subsidies, the dispute settlement body of the WTO concluded that such practices hurt developing countries and are in violation of WTO […] View resource Book Gender, Development, and Trade 01/01/2004 1 documents 99 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Fair trade Labour standards Overview Women all over the world are increasingly employed – and exploited – at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in China’s Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women’s labour and skill are crucial elements in the […] View resource Briefing paper Europe’s Double Standards: How the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world 01/04/2002 1 documents 21 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Fair trade Trade policy Overview EU double standards on trade policy are a disgrace. The EU forces Third World countries to open their markets at breakneck speed, while maintaining barriers to Third World exports, particularly farm products and textiles. The EU does further damage to livelihoods in the developing world by dumping highly-subsidised agricultural surpluses with which small farmers cannot […] View resource Journal article Partnerships in fair trade: reflections from a case study of Cafe direct 01/05/2000 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Fair trade Overview In the 1990s, fair trade, as practised by alternative trading organisations (ATOs), has evolved from a solidarity to a partnership model. This paper explores the nature of fair trade partnership using a case study of Cafedirect and one of its suppliers, the KNCU in Tanzania. For ATOs, fair trade is articulated in terms of a […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know