From fair trade to sustainable chains of production and trade

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7 publications

• Think Fair Trade First! Kids Book.

  Ingrid Hess, Fair Trade Resource Network, United States

• Trading Our Way Up - The story of a women’s economic empowerment project in fair trade

  Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - Wiego, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - Wiego, 2012

• An Overview of Fair Trade in North America

  Fair Trade Resource Network, United States, November 2011

• Confronting the Coffee Crisis. Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America

  Edited by Christopher M. Bacon,, V. Ernesto Mendez, Stephen R. Gliessman, David Goodman, Jonathan Fox, MIT Press, USA, January 2008

• Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

  Edited by Edwin Zaccai, Taylor&Francis Publishers,United States/UK., April 2007

• Javatrekker. Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee.

  Dean Cycon, Chelsea Green Publishing, United States, 2007

• A Guide for Retailer’s: Creating a Successful Fair Trade Business

  Kimberly Grimes, Fair Trade Resource Network, United States, September 2004

A thesis

• Environmental and social responsibility in the coffee industry : a case for Oaxaca, Mexico

  Thesis, degree Master of Arts, UC San Diego, USA.

  Natalya Rimburg,, 2012

11 Videos

• Meet Monika Onyszkiewicz, Fairtrade Poland

  Video from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - March 2022

  March 2022

  RIPESS Europe, Fair Trade Polska - Fundacja „Koalicja Sprawiedliwego Handlu”

• International Fair Trade Charter

  September 2018

  WFTO

• Interview of Bernard Ranaweera - President and Producer of the tea cooperative SOFA (Sri Lanka)

  November 2016

• Petite Savanne Cooperative Credit Society, Mauritius (Fairtrade Polska)

  SUSY project

  July 2016

  SUSY

• Chocolate Song

  February 2015

• Lucy’s story

  January 2015

• The PRICE idea. Why Fair Trade and Ethical Finance work well together.

  October 2014

• C.R.I.E.S. associaton Responsible Consumption & FairTrade

  August 2014

• Darryl Reed : The Rise of Fair Trade: Opportunities, Tensions and Uncertainties.

  UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”, Geneva, 6-8 May 2013

  May 2013

  UNRISD

• Creative Handicrafts - Making The World A Less Unequal Place

  November 2011

• Fairtrade Towns: energizing your community to change the world

  May 2011

4 pedagogical tools

• Resources on Fair Trade Towns

  2019

• Educational Material of Nazemi

  Nazemi, Czech Republic, 2018

• International Guide to Fair Trade labels.

  A reference tool to better understand the guarantees of fair trade labels, standards, monitoring measures and how they differ from sustainable development labels

  Eugénie Malandain, Aurélie Carimentrand, Alistair SMITH, Ivan DUFEU, Emilie DUROCHAT, Julie Stoll, Samuel FROIS, Sivaranjani SELVARADJ, Kerstin LINDGREN, Dana GEFFNER, Jean-Louis Pernin, November 2015

• The history of authentic Fair Trade

  Comicbook

  2013

One proposal

• Proposal Paper for the 21 century: Fair Trade

  This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work accomplished by the Fair Trade Workshop

  Pierre W. Johnson, October 2002

15 case studies

• Fairtrade Impact map/Mapa de Impacto del Comercio Justo

  Fairtrade International

  February 2024

• KOKOworld, Poland – an ethical brand for women created by a woman

  Article of RIPESS Europe NL, november 2020

  Rozalia Wiśniowska,, November 2020

  RIPESS Europe

• Prefinancing mechanisms for Fair Trade : 13 factsheets for companies and producer organisations

  June 2015

• People’s Organization for Development of Imports and Exports (PODIE)

  a Fair Trade social enterprise in Sri Lanka

  People’s Organization for Development of Imports and Exports (PODIE)

• Leaf-Business by Aged Women in Rural Village

  Asian Dialogue on Oeconomy Case Study Series No. 2010- 05

  Tadaaki Ooe, 2010

• Mahaguthi Craft With A Conscience

  Alleviating poverty Fair Trade in Nepal

  January 2009

  Mahaguthi Nepal

• Will « We » Achieve the Millennium Development Goals with Small-Scale Coffee Growers and Their Cooperatives? A Case Study Evaluating Fair Trade and Organic Coffee Networks in Northern Nicaragua

  Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz. Research brief #12, Spring 2008

  Christopher M. Bacon,, V. Ernesto Mendez, Maria Eugênia Flores, Martha Brown,, 2008

• Malawi’s High grown Coffee

  Coffee growers from the mountains of Northern Malawi have built up a strong structure to support them in the production, processing and marketing of their cash crops. The result is a lucrative business that is taking their households out of poverty and encouraging farmers to stay on their land.

  Laura ARNALTE, October 2006

• Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa

  Presentation of COFTA (Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa)

  May 2006

• From Fair Trade practices to fairer international South to North trade (the experience of Echoppe)

  Pierre Zanou, Ginette Adiffon Saizonnou, April 2006

• Interview of ORNI - Organización Nahuatl Independiente, Nuevo Nexaca, Puebla, Mexico

  The ORNI is a Social Solidarity Society gathering six Indigenous Villages of the region of Nuevo Nexaca, Puebla, Mexico. Promotion of work in the field of health and food according to the principles of self-management and fair trade. Importance to remember the history of the community, which implies the importance of the role of women.

  Chilo Villareal, March 2004

• Interview of Pariona Fredy, Fair trade shop, Huancayo (Peru)

  Activity in the domain of fair trade

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview of Lozada Seminario Marianella, Solidarity Economy Initiative Group - Chiclayo (Peru)

  Activity in the domain of formation, production and comecialisation in Peru

  Humberto Ortiz Roca, January 2004

• Interview of Austreberta Luján, Chatino Indians Community, Oaxaca region in Mexico

  Production and consumption of organic Jamaica coffee of quality according to principles of solidarity economy.

  Chilo Villareal, January 2004

• Interview with CEDESA and REMECC (Mexican Fair Trade Network)

  The first organization works on integral development in several farmers communities in the region of Dolores Hidalgo Guanajuato. The second, on trade at a national level; they are part of the (Latinamerican Network of Community Trade), based in Equador. Works in the context of solidarity economy towards selfconsumption and responsible consumption in order to achieve a selfcentered development.

  Chilo Villareal, December 2003

32 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Fairtrade Living Income - Progress Report 2023

  FAIR TRADE International

  December 2023

• Fairtrade: Exploring our impact. A review on research on Fairtrade from 2015 - 2020.

  July 2022

• CREATING THE NEW ECONOMY. Business models that put people and planet first.

  WFTO Bob Doherty, Helen Haugh, Erinch Sahan, Tom Wills, January 2020

  WFTO

• Fair Trade Polska Report for 2018

  the Foundation of the “Fair Trade Coalition” – Fairtrade Polska, September 2019

• Certified coffee, rightless workers

  Reporter Brasil. Monitor #5.

  Mario Gomes, December 2016

• Sustainable Development Goals and Fairtrade: the case for partnership

  Fairtrade International, October 2015

• Trade for change. Conference Report.

  13th Biennial Conference of the World Fair Trade Organization, 23-27 May, 2015, Milan, Italy,

  May 2015

• Fair trade and ethical finance: the possible synergy

  Guide produced in the context of the PRICE project

  Simone Grillo, February 2015

• Are labels delivering what they intend? Explicit value of fair-trade labels versus implicit value of fair trade characteristics

  2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota >

  Pieter Vlaeminck,, Jana Vandoren,, Liesbet Vranken,, July 2014

• One hundred years of labor control: violence, militancy, and the Fairtrade banana commodity chain in Colombia

  Environment and Planning A., Vol. 45 (11), 2013

  Sandy Brown, November 2013

• Sharing Hong Kong: from social and solidarity economy to sharing economy, and from fair trade to community supported agriculture

  Submitted to the Asian Solidarity Economy Council, on the occasion of the 5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Sung Ming Chow, October 2013

• How to create valuable community work

  CWA Magasine

  October 2013

• Fair enough? Fair Trade and the quality of life amongst Bolivia’s indigenous women artisans

  Development in Practice Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2013, pages 389-401

  Tamara Stenn, May 2013

• Fair trade in public procurement in the EU

  Library Briefing. Library of the European Parliament 17/07/2012

  Laurence Amand-Eeckhout, July 2012

• Performance measurement in solidarity economy organizations The case of Fair Trade shops in Italy

  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2012, vol. 83, issue 1, pages 25-59

  Marco BELLUCCI, Luca Bagnoli, Mario Biggeri, Vittorio Rinaldi, 2012

• A confluence of Fair Trade and organic agriculture in southern India

  Development in Practice Volume 21, Issue 2, 2011

  Makita Rie, 2011

• Characteristics and organization of the Fairtrade market in Brazil

  No 95348, 116th Seminar, October 27-30, 2010, Parma, Italy from European Association of Agricultural Economists

  Elena Valentini, October 2010

• Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price

  Journal of Peasant Studies, 37:1, 111 - 147

  Christopher M. Bacon,, 2010

• Beyond a subjective theory of value and towards a ‘fair price’: an organizational perspective on Fairtrade minimum price setting

  Organization, vol. 17, pp. 563-581.

  Juliane Reineke, 2010

• Exploring the diversity of Fair Trade social enterprises

  Benjamin HUYBRECHTS, Jacques DEFOURNY, 2010

  Université de Liège, Belgique, EMES

• Fair trade - fair futures : the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union scholarship programme for orphan and vulnerable children

  International Labour Office. – Dar es Salaam: ILO, 2009 1 v. (CoopAfrica working paper ; no.6)

  Faustine K. Bee, September 2009

• Measuring the impact of fair trade on development

  Development in Practice, 19:6, 777-788

  Guillermo Zúñiga-Arias, July 2009

• Cultivating Sustainable Coffee: Persistent Paradoxes

  Reprint from Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Sustaining Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America, MIT Press, 2008

  Christopher M. Bacon,, V. Ernesto Mendez, Jonathan Fox, 2008

• Is large-scale fair trade possible?

  Sustainable consumption, ecology and fair trade, Edwin Zaccai (Ed.) (2007) 201-215

  Ronan Le Velly, 2007

• Fair Trade and Solidarity Economy : the challenges ahead

  Véronique Bisaillon, Corinne Gendron, Marie-France Turcotte, October 2005

  UQAM

• Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?

  World Develpment, vol. 33, n°3, pp.497-511, 2005 Elsevier

  Christopher M. Bacon,, 2005

• Fair Trade in Asia - the developmental role of Oxfam

  Oxfam, an international development, humanitarian and campaigning organization that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering, has been at the forefront of making trade work for the poor, and has pioneered a fair trade movement to demonstrate this model of trade is fair both to the producers and consumers. This paper, presented at the Asian SME Forum in Hainan, China, in June 2004, has attempted to illustrate some of Oxfam’s efforts in the area of fair trade, with a special focus on Asia.

  Anand Kishore Das, June 2004

• A Strategy to Create New Beneficiaries from World Trade

  Alternatives to Globalization 2004 conference papers

  David Barkin, February 2004

• Global Fair Trade, an alternative to the liberal market

  Preparatory Meeting for the launching of the Workshop on International Regulations within the context of a Solidarity Socio-Economy in an era of Neo-liberal Globalization Tokyo, October 9-11 2003.

  Pierre W. Johnson, October 2003

• Solidarity-Based Cooperation Networks

  This article begins by defining the notion of the network, and then of solidarity-based co-operation networks, providing a description of their historical development, current position and importance.

  Euclides André Mance, January 2003

• Solidarity-Based Productive Chains

  The text analyses the conditions required to progressively replace capitalist accumulation relationships and to encourage relationships built on solidarity-based production and consumption: sharing product surpluses, generating new work opportunities, while increasing participants’ consumption and generating a major diversity of products and services in order to guarantee a good life for all those involved in solidarity-based labour and consumption.

  Euclides André Mance, January 2003

• Organically Certified Fruits and Vegetables in the Japanese Market

  FAO 2003

  Katsushige Murayama, 2003

3 Charter/Manifesto

• We are calling for a Business Revolution!

  February 2024

  WFTO

• The International Fair Trade Charter

  How the Global Fair Trade Movement works to transform trade in order to achieve justice, equity and sustainability for people and planet

  September 2018

• Declaration of the African Fair Trade Symposium, Cotonou, 2006

  April 2006

4 public contributions

• Lessons and inputs of Fair Trade in the development of different trade relations based on food sovereignty (first draft)

  Michel Buisson, April 2006

• The place of Fair Trade in development and the input of migrant workers

  Tete Benissan, April 2006

• Forum Rethinking Fair Trade in Africa”

  Launch text for the electronic forum on the theme « Rethinking Fair Trade in Africa ». (Text available in English and French only.)

  March 2005

• Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement

  Summary of the round table and workshops on Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement during the 2003 World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

  Pierre W. Johnson, January 2003

7 articles

• Drawing boundaries: Negotiating a collective ‘we’ in community-supported agriculture networks

  Leonie Guerrero Lara, Giuseppe Feola, Peter Driessen, February 2024

  Journal of Rural Studies

• What does SSE mean in Poland?

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - July 2022

  Agnieszka Bińskowska, July 2022

  RIPESS Europe, Fair Trade Polska - Fundacja „Koalicja Sprawiedliwego Handlu”

• Fair Trade in times of crisis

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - April 2020

  Andrzej Żwawa, April 2020

  RIPESS Europe, Fair Trade Polska - Fundacja „Koalicja Sprawiedliwego Handlu”

• Small-scale Farmers in Kerala Respond to COVID-19

  Fairworldproject.org

  April 2020

• WFTO new report – ‘business models that put people and planet first’

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - January 2020

  Communiqué de presse de la WFTO 22 janvier 2020, Genève Suisse, January 2020

  RIPESS Europe, WFTO

• Is fair trade finished?

  Article of The Guardian, 23 of July 2019

  Samanth Subramanian, July 2019

• Czech coffee co-op aims to prove that co-operation works

  Article of the news coop, 6 october 2018

  Anca Voinea, October 2018