This paper analyzes the extent to which fair trade organizations increase wages for rural poor women in Bangladesh. Fair trade is a fusion of market-oriented business with grass-roots activism attempting to reduce poverty through market mechanisms by creating trading partnerships between poor...

Purpose: Between 2006 and 2011, Nicaragua shipped an average of US$9.4 million per year of smallholder-produced fresh taro (Colocasia esculenta) to the USA; however, by 2016, the US market for Nicaraguan taro had effectively collapsed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the short-lived taro...