Fair Trade

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Brief History of Fair Trade From Charity to Autonomy and Justice From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 Lives From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 Trade From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	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 Soup From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	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 View Fernwood Publishing	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 Colonialism How Unfair Trade Changed the World From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 Power From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	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 Justice Can Trade Policy Be Fair? From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	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 2030 From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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, Firsthand Connecting Northern Consumers with Southern Producers From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 Fashion Remaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes New Society Publishers	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 Change An Indigenous Entrepreneur Weaves Traditional Teachings into His Fair Trade Coffee Business From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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 Foreword From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	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 Worker The Life and Death of Álvaro Vargas Fonseca From: The Fair Trade Handbook View Fernwood Publishing	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