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111. Fair Trade and social impact
This week, I have I shared some reflections on the connection between Fair Trade and coffee quality (part 1 – part 2 – part 3). Today, I revisit the issue of Fair Trade’s social impact — a topic of...
View Article168. What do you (think you) know about sustainability?
At last month’s SCAA Symposium, we were invited to reexamine our assumptions about sustainability in coffee — what we think we know about the issue that may not be true. At the time, I thought that...
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The study on the economic impacts of Fair Trade and organic certifications that appeared in a recent issue of Ecological Economics has prompted some good, informed discussion, but also its share of...
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Proposing an alternative benchmark for coffee prices: The C-5
There is an urgent need to fix the coffee market: to reduce price volatility and ensure that a fairer share of coffee revenue reaches farmers and farmworkers. In a recent post, I made the point that...
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