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A new workers' rights strategy for Fairtrade
Publication: published 20 Jun 2012
The vision of our new workers’ rights strategy is for workers to have the power to affect the decisions that impact their lives. We want to move beyond the traditional CSR paradigm of social ...
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A seat at the table?
Publication: published 30 Sep 2014
Governments and NGOs are increasingly partnering with the private sector to tackle global hunger and poverty, but this study from the Fairtrade Foundation warns that far from being a silver bullet, ...
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Powering up smallholder farmers to make food fair
Publication: published 11 May 2013
Seventy percent of the world’s food is produced by 500 million smallholder farmers; this group also represents half of the world’s hungry people. On World Fair Trade Day 2013, Fairtrade ...
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Food miles and Fairtrade
Publication: published 30 Nov 2011
‘Food miles’ refers to the distance that food travels from producer to consumer, from ‘farm to fork’. This paper explains the Fairtrade perspective that the current 'food miles' concept is an ...
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The great cotton stitch-up
Publication: published 30 Nov 2010
Cotton is at the heart of agricultural and economic development in many African countries. It makes a vital contribution to foreign exchange earnings and accounts for a significant proportion of GDP ...
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Fairtrade and the carbon market
Publication: published 27 Nov 2015
Climate change is affecting small-scale farmers and rural communities now. Fairtrade's climate change strategy aims to support producers to adapt to climate change and reduce their carbon emissions, ...
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Poverty reduction and trade: Fairtrade as a vehicle to combat poverty
Publication: published 28 May 2011
This paper looks at the obstacles faced by producers from developing countries on the international trading market and how the Fairtrade system can support them and help combat poverty through ...
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Fairtrade’s contribution to a more sustainable world
Publication: published 31 Dec 2010
The focus of this paper is on Fairtrade's role in sustainable development.
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Fairtrade child labour position paper
Publication: published 2 Nov 2010
This paper explains Fairtrade's position on child labour and how it works to stop and prevent child labour within producer organizations.
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Assuring consumer confidence in ethical trade
Publication: published 31 Oct 2010
Given the rapid increase in ethical labelling schemes around the world and the need to better understand the problems associated with inaccurate and unreliable claims, an "Ethical Trade Fact-finding ...
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