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Research report

Who will feed the World? The production challenge

26/04/2011

2 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This report focuses on the production challenge contained with the ambitious question of ‘who will feed the World?’ It acknowledges that this is just one part of the solution to feeding the world, along with waste management; (inter)national trade regimes; (inter)national rules, regulations and laws; the policies and practices of companies; etc. The results of […]

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Journal article

A new Fair Trade registration scheme based on the relations of production

01/04/2011

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Fashion, accessories, and homeware fall outside the regulations of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), which certifies mostly food products. A handful of fashion-led Fair Trade enterprises are now providing ranges of high-quality desirable products, made by workers employed in urban enterprises as well as independent producers in cooperatives. Tabeisa, an NGO involved in Fair Trade […]

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Briefing paper

Trading Away Access to Medicines: How the European Union’s trade agenda has taken a wrong turn

20/10/2009

7 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Thai

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Access to medicines poses a critical challenge in developing countries, largely because prices are high, and new or adapted medicines and vaccine to address diseases of the developing world are lacking. ore than 5 million people in low and middle income countries still lack access to the anti-retroviral medicines needed to treat HIV and AIDS. […]

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Briefing paper

Empty Promises: What happened to ‘development’ in the WTO’s Doha Round?

16/07/2009

6 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries. Instead, the negotiations have betrayed this promise. The trade Round has become a market access negotiation, in which developing countries are expected to give disproportionately more and will receive little but stale promises of […]

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Journal article

Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

01/07/2009

11 pages long

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Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

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Dramatic reductions in trade barriers during the past 10 years have caused unprecedented economic growth in India. Little is known about the impact of globalisation on the informal labour market, especially the impact on women. We interviewed women working in four occupations in Mumbai’s informal labour market, gathering information about their daily lives, job responsibilities, […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Cotton Textile Supply Chain Programme and Potential for Scale-up in Hyderabad, India

01/05/2009

2 documents

86 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Cotton-Textile Supply Chain (CTSC) programme in India is based on the knowledge that poor communities are connected to each other by supply chains. Through them, poor people can enhance their power in the market, resulting in higher incomes, better control of working conditions and more control over their lives. A multi stakeholder collaborative project […]

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Journal article

The Dominican Republic and Central America Free Trade Agreement with the USA: some concerns

01/03/2009

5 pages long

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This article examines the role of free-trade agreements that integrate profoundly asymmetrical economies in simultaneously benefiting the more powerful nation and exacerbating inequalities within and between the countries involved. The latest in a series of such agreements in the Americas, the Dominican Republic and Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), opens up the economies of […]

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Journal article

Trade liberalisation, rural poverty, and the environment: global discussions and local cases

01/11/2008

11 pages long

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Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and […]

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Briefing paper

Double-Edged Prices: Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take

16/10/2008

5 documents

47 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Spanish

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The recent sharp increase in food prices should have benefited millions of poor people who make their living from agriculture. However, decades of misguided policies by developing country governments on agriculture, trade, and domestic markets – often promoted by international financial institutions and supported by donor countries – have prevented poor farmers and rural workers […]

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Briefing note

Square Pegs in Round Holes: How the Farm Bill squanders chances for a pro-development trade deal

21/07/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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When trade ministers from 35 countries gather in Geneva at the World Trade Organization [WTO] for what is being billed yet again as a last-ditch attempt to forge a Doha trade deal, they will be forced to meet an unwelcome guest: the 2008 US Farm Bill. With a host of newly bolstered subsidies that will […]

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