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Fair Trade 2030

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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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.

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Contributors

Zach Gross

Gavin Fridell is a professor and Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. He has researched widely on trade justice and his publications include Coffee (Polity Press: 2014), Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future (Fernwood: 2013) and Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (University of Toronto Press: 2007). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Fair Trade Network and is currently conducting research on global trade agreements and trade justice.

Gavin Fridell

Zack Gross recently retired as coordinator of Fair Trade Manitoba, based at the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation in Winnipeg. He continues in fair trade as a member of the CFTN’s Advisory Council, as a board member at Fairtrade Canada and as chair of the board of the Marquis Project in Brandon. He also sits on the board of his local food bank in Gimli, MB. Zack is also a former president of the CFTN board and a recipient of Fairtrade Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Zack facilitates online courses in the International Development Studies Diploma program at UBC and writes a regular “Small World” Op. Ed. column in the Brandon Sun.

Sean McHugh

Sean McHugh is the founder and executive director of the Canadian Fair Trade Network (CFTN). Sean’s passion for sustainability, grew out of international travel (2004–2009) and time spent working in Kenya. After helping to organize fair trade cities and campuses across the country, in 2011 Sean founded the CFTN and has overseen the planning of numerous programs, seven national conferences and the organization’s bi-annual publication Fair Trade Magazine. Sean represents Canada on the International Fair Trade Towns Committee.