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Small-scale Business Inspired by Timeless Simplicity: A Contribution Towards Gross National Happiness

Kuntiranont, Wallapa - 2004

The paper explains how Suan Nguen Mee Ma Co., Ltd. (Suan Company) emerged from the NGO movement guided by Sulak Sivaraksa in Thailand. Suan Company is one example of the growing number of experiments in 'alternative business'. In addition to 'fair trade' efforts to bring rural producers and...

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Constructing Fair Trade from the Bottom-Up: An examination of Notions of Fairness in the Convetional Cotton Trade in Burkina Faso

Lapierre-Fortin, Émanuèle - 2008

certification criteria that may not be adapted to the local culture.It seems like justice in a socio-economic relation differs from … views of producers on trade justice in the conventional networks into a theoretical framework about fairness in economics … trade justice is understood and experienced by a) non-certified cotton producers in Burkina Faso, b) FT cotton workers and c …

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Alliances and Networks: Creating Success in the UK Fair Trade Market

Davies, Iain A. - 2009

Data from a longitudinal study into the key management success factors in the fair trade industry provide insights into the essential nature of inter-organizational alliances and networks in creating the profitable and growing fair trade market in the UK. Drawing on three case studies and...

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The Eras and Participants of Fair Trade

Davies, Iain A. - 2007

Purpose: This paper investigates the increased mass-marketing in the fair trade industry to provide a robust analysis of the industry, participants and growth for use as both a starting point for researchers in this field and as a case study for readers with an interest in any ethical trading...

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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom

Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009

The educators introduce students to basic concepts and practices of sustainable development by exploring fair trade in … disciplinary contexts and help students understand fair trade practices as a part of sustainable development. When fair trade works … equitable trading partners in the global North. Fair trade is part of sustainable development because fair trade practice …

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A STUDY OF THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF IMPOSING FAIR TRADE COFFEE CONSUMPTION IN SAN FRANCISCO

Magginetti, Alexander Preston - 2010

Noting the rising sales of eco-friendly and fairly traded goods in the United States, this study examines the effects of implementing a policy that would limit the supply of non-fair-trade coffee in San Francisco. The goal of this policy would be to increase the sales of the fair-trade coffee...

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Who cares about social image?

Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - In: European Economic Review 110 (2018), pp. 61-77

This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that...

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Fairtrade and market efficiency: Fairtrade-labeled coffee in the Swedish coffee market

Durevall, Dick - In: Economies 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-17

Fairtrade labeling has the potential to increase market efficiency by connecting farmers to altruistic consumers who are willing to pay a premium for sustainability-certified products. A requirement for increased efficiency, though, is that the farmers' benefits are larger than the Fairtrade...

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Exploring the supply chain management of fair trade business: case study of a fair trade craft company in China

Zhang, Kaifeng; Liu, Zheng; Wang, Ping - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20

For two decades, fair trade has served as an alternative approach of trading that encourages minimal returns, sustainability, and ethics, by offering producers in developing countries better trading conditions and secured rights. This movement has emerged recently in China, with companies...

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Where does the Fair Trade money go? How much consumers pay extra for Fair Trade coffee and how this value is split along the value chain

Naegele, Helene - In: World Development 133 (2020), pp. --

Fair Trade certification aims at transferring wealth from the consumer to the farmer; however, coffee passes through many hands before reaching final consumers. Bringing together retail, wholesale, and stock market data, this study estimates how much more consumers are paying for Fair...

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