ftrn.org is an information hub designed to grow the fair trade movement. together, we can create a market that values the people who make the food we eat and the goods we use.
The fair trade certified coffee market is not only fairer to farmers than the conventional coffee market, it is a uniquely remarkable way to stimulate economic growth in some of the poorest communities on the Earth.
My perspective is in direct contrast to an opinion column by Gene Callahan that appeared on this page Aug. 14. (more…)
World Fair Trade Day in North America. 12,158 people. 150 events. One video.
Watch this short video and see the action with your own eyes!
“There are currently more than 2.5 million men, women and children who are forced, defrauded or coerced into various forms of labor or prostitution. Radiohead recommends checking out Amnesty International, Witness and The The Fair Trade Resource Network to learn more.” See the full article on“Look to the Stars”
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See Tom Yorke discuss the new video about child labor here:
John Oliver is a regular reporter on America’s leading comedy news program on Comedy Central. In his stand-up routine, he discusses Fair Trade and the alternatives. Check it out.
Equal Exchange is an unusual company — a worker-owned co-operative dedicated to Fair Trade — that has made a success of tilting against the windmills of market forces for the purpose of demonstrating that the viability of economic democracy, and the way your food reaches your plate, needn’t impoverish those who grew it. (more…)
NEW YORK – Monday, Nov. 5, 2007 – America’s consumers offer a warning to business leaders and marketers looking to ride the green wave: either back your eco-friendly words with socially responsible actions or risk a backlash. In the first major study to combine field observations with a national survey on purchasing behavior and social values, increasingly conscious consumers are demanding that companies be transparent about their practices and accountable for their impact on people and the planet. (more…)
Critics of “go local” movements warn that buying local deprives people in developing countries of jobs that could lift them out of poverty. But the global economy isn’t that simple. (more…)
Food First recently release the report: Fair to the Last Drop: The Corporate Challenges to Fair Trade Coffee by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ian Bailey, and Devon Sampson. You can find it at: http://www.foodfirst.org/node/1794
Fair to the Last Drop gives a great introduction to the history of Fair Trade and then seeks to present the challenge of corporate participation in Fair Trade.
The report looks at the evolution of the Fair Trade movement and the push in the last few years led by Transfair for the mainstreaming of the FT movement. (more…)
Pg. 18 –With a US embargo on Burmese diamonds, horror stories of “dirty gold” and the forthcoming film Blood Diamond, in which stones are the currency of war, shopping for a trinket this Christmas could be tricky for the well-intentioned.
Unlike chocolates or coffee, there is to date no “fair trade” certified jewellery. (more…)
Coffee beans at Starbucks, bananas at the grocery store, beaded jewelry at a local gift shop. The “fair trade” logo seems to be popping up all over.
And while you might like the sound of it who doesn’t want to play fair? do you know what the term really represents? (more…)
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