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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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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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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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
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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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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
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Is this what a feminist policy looks like?
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Is this what a feminist policy looks like?

Foreign aid under the Trudeau government

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter looks at the Trudeau government’s record on foreign aid and international development. 14 $1.40 Add
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Putting Southern Farmers First

Putting Southern Farmers First

Journeys to Decolonization

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter is a conversation between a Colombian coffee farmer and a worker-member of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op. 9 $0.90 Add
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Sweet!

Sweet!

How Fair Trade Powers the Sugar Revolution

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter explores fair trade in the sugar industry; how sugar farmers are often deprived of market access; and how a Paraguayan co-operative is positively disrupting the status quo. 8 $0.80 Add
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Taking Fair Trade to the People

Taking Fair Trade to the People

Education and Advocacy for Social Change

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the author explores the different forms of activism and advocacy that have been employed to bring about positive change in trading relationships. 9 $0.90 Add
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The Case for Shaping the Business and Human Rights Agenda

The Case for Shaping the Business and Human Rights Agenda

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

In this chapter, the authors suggest that if fair trade is viewed as a market-based movement to "level the playing field" by empowering disadvantages producers, we may overlook the deep … 9 $0.90 Add
The Fair Trade Handbook

The Fair Trade Handbook

Building a Better World, Together

Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between … ; ; 240 View