Fair Trade

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A Brief History of Fair Trade

A Brief History of Fair Trade

From 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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A Lively Bean that Brightens Lives

A Lively Bean that Brightens Lives

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This illustrated chapter tells the story of Ethiopian coffee in comicbook form. 13 $1.30 Add
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Aid for Trade

Aid for Trade

From: 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, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup

From: 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, … 36 $3.60 Add
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Climate Justice?

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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Colonialism

Colonialism

How 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations
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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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 … 28 $2.80 Add
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Demanding Justice

Demanding Justice

Can 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Envisioning the Future of Agroecological Food Systems
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Envisioning the Future of Agroecological Food Systems

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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Fair Trade 2030

Fair Trade 2030

From: 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. ; ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Fair Trade, Firsthand

Fair Trade, Firsthand

Connecting 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
Fixing Fashion

Fixing Fashion

Remaking 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 … 242 View
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Footprints for Change

Footprints for Change

An 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Foreword

Foreword

From: 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, … 3 $0.30 Add
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From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

The 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. 10 $1.00 Add