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Cut Above: Building the Market for Fair Trade
Timber. Duncan
Macqueen. IIED.
February
2008
Discusses the importance of building a market
for fair trade timber which unlike coffee and
cotton, has yet to become a fair trade commodity.
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Exploring
Fair Trade Timber: A Review of Issues in Current
Practice, Institutional Structures and Ways Forward.
Duncan Macqueen. Annie Dufey. Bindi Patel. 2006.
This publication explores how community returns
from responsible timber production might be enhanced
through consumer pressures and market incentives,
leading to fairer trade in timber and consequently
greater returns to local livelihoods. HTML |
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Assessing
the Social Impact of Codes of Practice. Analyses
the effects on the livelihoods of workers, worker
households and other local stakeholders in two industries:
The Cut Flower Industry-Kenya and The Western Cape
Wine Industry-South Africa. DFID 2006. Read : Kenya
Briefing Paper [PDF].
Read: South Africa Briefing Paper [PDF].
Learn more about the study [HTML]
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Broad-Basing
Fair Trade in India: Entrepreneurship of Women,
Artisan and Weaver Groups – A Holistic Approach
Towards Capacity Enhancement, Sustainable Livelihoods
and MDGs
Neela Mukherjee, Development Tracks India 2005
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Fair
Trade in the Wider World.
Traidcraft Fair Trade Toolkit July 2004. Summarises
key areas of current trade policy and practice which
undermine the security of poor people. Sets out
principles of fair trade and explores areas where
fair trade can be useful as a model. HTML |
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Ethical
Trade in African Horticulture: Gender, Rights and
Participation
IDS project makes an in-depth assessment of gender
and ethical trade in export horticulture in South
Africa, Kenya and Zambia. Background HTML
IDS Working Paper 233, 2004 PDF |
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Learning
Together: An exploration of market access and livelihoods
by Traidcraft and DFID’s Sustainable Livelihoods
Support Office.
Pippa Bird Department for International Development
April 2002 DOC |
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The
challenges of assessing the poverty impact of
ethical trading: What can be learnt from fair trade
initiatives and the sustainable livelihoods approach?
Department for International Development. Workshop
Report 13th March 2002 PDF |
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Ethical
Trade and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods.
1999. Natural Resources and Ethical Trade Programme
(NRET), NRI. Comparative study of five approaches
to ethical trade, and how they contribute to poverty
elimination. Full Report PDF
Case studies: Uganda Fruits PDF
Uganda Cotton PDF |
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Responsible
Business and Sustainable Livelihoods
Natural Resources and Ethical Trade Programme (NRET),
NRI.
Overview of different approaches to responsible
business and ethical trade, and how they help developing
countries PDF |
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Other
Natural Resources and Ethical Trade Programme
(NRET) projects - team and project details and
publications on ethical and fair trade at: http://www.nri.org/NRET/projects.htm
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Sustainable
Livelihoods and Responsible Business,
Post-it and links to papers from Anne Tallontire:
University of Greenwich and Ian Barney: University
of Wales, 18 December 2001 HTML |
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Sweet
Like Chocolate? Making the coffee and cocoa trade
work for biodiversity and livelihoods
Kate Gooding, RSPB 2003 This paper studies the cases
of cocoa and coffee to assess whether their systems
of production and trade meet the needs and aspirations
of poor rural populations in the developing world,
and minimize environmental damage. PDF |
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