Fair Trade
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() A Brief History of Fair TradeFrom Charity to Autonomy and Justice From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter examines the complex relationships between small producer organizations and Northern NGOs. It concludes with a brief account of the causes of the mission drift within the certifying … | Darryl Reed | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() A Lively Bean that Brightens LivesFrom: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This illustrated chapter tells the story of Ethiopian coffee in comicbook form. | Bill Barrett and Curt Shoultz | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Aid for TradeFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The chapter Aid for Trade takes a look at the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 20 years, considering who has benefitted. It also analyzes statistics and outcomes by country, … | Michael Lavergne | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Alphabet SoupFrom: Fixing Fashion |
In Alphabet Soup, the author begins to examine his process of engaging with the darkers aspects of the global fashion industry, such as child labor, global trade agreements and their impacts, … | Michael Lavergne | 36 | 2015 | $3.60 Add |
From ![]() Climate Justice?Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee! From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … | Monika Firl | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() ColonialismHow Unfair Trade Changed the World From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter provides a short history of colonialism, and describes how the economic benefits of colonialism flowed from the colonized to the colonizers, especially through a process of resource … | A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate PowerFrom: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter demonstrates that the international trade framework systematically reduces national sovereignty and democracy, disempowers governments that seek to enact policies to protect people … | Sujata Dey | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() Demanding JusticeCan Trade Policy Be Fair? From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter articulates the challenge for fair traders: to create a vision for how the principles of fair trade — democracy, justice, dignity, human rights, a living income and … | Gavin Fridell and Kate Ervine | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Envisioning the Future of Agroecological Food Systems |
In this chapter the authors summarize that agroecological agriculture must also be based on equity, participation, democracy, and justice, that is not only sustainable but helps restore and … | Dana James | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() Fair Trade 2030From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter outlines a potential future in which fair trade mindsets create true global partnerships and ethical consumption. It also offers 6 overarching lessons from the book and its contributors. | Gavin Fridell; Sean McHugh; Zach Gross | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() Fair Trade, FirsthandConnecting Northern Consumers with Southern Producers From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
In this chapter, the author describes the positive impact of "fair trade origin trips," which allow participants to hear firsthand the stories of transformation and change that have … | Jennifer Williams | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
![]() Fixing FashionRemaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes |
With sales of more than US $500 billion a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the … | Michael Lavergne | 242 | 2015 | View |
From ![]() Footprints for ChangeAn Indigenous Entrepreneur Weaves Traditional Teachings into His Fair Trade Coffee Business From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter concerns Birch Bark Coffee, a fair trade coffee business begun by Mark Marsolais-Nahwegahbow, an Ojibwe man. For every 100 coffee bags sold in retail stores and for every 50 bags … | Sarah Niman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() ForewordFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The foreword begins with a short history of the textile industry in the UK before looking to the ways the textile industry is still exploiting people, especially children around the world, … | Carry Somers | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction WorkerThe Life and Death of Álvaro Vargas Fonseca From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
In this chapter, the author outlines the chain of events that led to the death of a Costa Rican coffee farmer in a Toronto construction site. | Roxana Olivera | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |