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Author : Nicole Marie Cousin-Gossett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Sustainability of the North American Fair Trade Market written by Nicole Marie Cousin-Gossett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology
Author : Nora Claudia Lustig
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815718462
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book North American Free Trade written by Nora Claudia Lustig and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents a historic change in relations among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The effect of the agreement on the three economies has generated controversy and some degree of alarm within each country. In this book, noted trade and development experts review the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on the three member countries and the world trading system. They evaluate how NAFTA will affect areas such as economic growth, employment, income distribution, industry, and agriculture in Canada, Mexico, and the United States; and consider the significance the trade agreement holds for the rest of the world. Drusill K. Brown begins the discussion by providing an overview and comparison of the general results from recent studies. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Sherman Robinson explore in greater detail the potential effects of NAFTA on wages and employment in Mexico and the United States. Sidney Wintrab reviews industry-specific effects of NAFTA, in particular, the environment, the social agenda, and human rights and democracy. Finally, Carlos Alberto Primo Braga considers the implications of NAFTA on the rest of the world. Following each of these chapters, international scholars assess the alternatives and provide recommendations for future research.
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002637
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Fair Trade written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137269855
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change written by I. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as a case study of the shift toward non-state forms of governance, they focus on its role not only as a regulatory tool, but as a catalyst for broader social and political transformation.
Author : Stefanie Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781100176949
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Whose Logo? written by Stefanie Bowles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern North American consumer faces increasingly challenging choices in today's marketplace. Products claiming to be "green," local, fair trade, or otherwise ethical are on the rise. While eco-logos and green claims are proliferating, it isn't necessarily clear to the consumer, procurement officer, or seller what the claim to being green is based on, according to whom, or using what criteria. How is a "green" product defined, and by extension, who determines what constitutes a "green" product? If all goods and services have some impact on the environment, then the greenest product may be no product at all. Yet not only are some goods inherently necessary for human survival, all cultures and civilizations confer and derive meaning through material objects. This meaning, like art and culture, is to be celebrated. As modern sustainability and equity pressures increase, the meaning and value of goods is increasingly being modified by "green" qualifiers, with significant cultural, socio-economic and institutional implications.
Author : Peter M. Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book North American Free Trade written by Peter M. Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith R. Brown
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814725368
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Buying into Fair Trade written by Keith R. Brown and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term “fair trade” has quickly become one of today’s most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-trade products give buyers peace of mind in knowing that, in theory, how they shop can help make the world a better place. Buying into Fair Trade turns the spotlight onto this growing trend, exploring how fair-trade shoppers think about their own altruism within an increasingly global economy. Using over 100 interviews with fair-trade consumers, national leaders of the movement, coffee farmers, and artisans, author Keith Brown describes both the strategies that consumers use to confront the moral contradictions involved in trying to shop ethically and the ways shopkeepers and suppliers reconcile their need to do good with the ever-present need to turn a profit. Brown also provides a how-to chapter that outlines strategies readers can use to appear altruistic, highlighting the ways that socially responsible markets have been detached from issues of morality. A fascinating account of how consumers first learn about, understand, and sometimes ignore the ethical implications of shopping, Buying into Fair Trade sheds new light on the potential for the fair trade market to reshape the world into a more socially-just place. Keith Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Author : Laura T. Raynolds
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783474629
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Fair Trade written by Laura T. Raynolds and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically i
Author : Barbara Dudley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the Environment written by Barbara Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael G. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The North American Free Trade Agreement written by Michael G. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray C. Anderson
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1933782730
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 8/10 written by Ray C. Anderson and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.
Author : Michael C. Dreiling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forging Solidarity in the Struggle Over the North American Free Trade Agreement written by Michael C. Dreiling and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magdalena Śliwińska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100380196X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Fair Trade and Sustainable Development written by Magdalena Śliwińska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair Trade constitutes a social-business initiative that plays a crucial role in the transition towards a "sustainable market economy", countering the major challenges of the 21st century. This research monograph reveals the mechanisms behind this process. It argues that Fair Trade constitutes a new type of market, "a Dispersed Hybrid Market (DHM)", that due to its specific features contributes to a more pro-social functioning of the entire market and taking responsibility for sustainable development by different market participants. It demonstrates, thus, what was underestimated about Fair Trade, and which is extremely important, that it can have a positive impact on the market in terms of sustainable transformation. The book is intended for researchers, lecturers, students, practitioners, and political decision-makers interested in sustainable development, Fair Trade, and transition towards sustainable markets, business, and economy. It contributes to better understanding of sustainability challenges explaining specifics of Fair Trade market, revealing paradoxes and barriers of its development and showing mechanisms of its spillover effects. It also develops arguments about the need to change the role of the state in the face of global challenges and to support such grassroots international initiatives as Fair Trade. Therefore the practical recommendations address both the desired directions of development of the self-governance of this initiative and the expected role of the state towards it, in particular possible ways to strengthen it.
Author : Ndongo Sylla
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444891
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Fair Trade Scandal written by Ndongo Sylla and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom. Ndongo Sylla has worked for Fairtrade International and offers an insider’s view of how fair trade improves—or doesn’t—the lot of the world’s poorest. His methodological framework first describes the hypotheses on which the fair trade movement is grounded before going on to examine critically the claims made by its proponents. By distinguishing local impact from global impact, Sylla exposes the inequity built into the system and the resulting misallocation of the fair trade premium paid by consumers. The Fair Trade Scandal is an empirically based critique of both fair trade and traditional free trade; it is the more important for exploring the problems of both from the perspective of the peoples of the Global South, the ostensible beneficiaries of the fair trade system.
Author : Ricardo Grinspun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349133256
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of North American Free Trade written by Ricardo Grinspun and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the economic, social, political and environmental implications of NAFTA from a range of critical perspectives. The chapters, unified by a sceptical view of the management of economic integration in North America cover the economic strategy of Mexico, Canada-US trade agreement and more.
Author : Benoit Daviron
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136293
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Coffee Paradox written by Benoit Daviron and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to understanding commodity production and trade, as well as putting forward policy-relevant suggestions for ‘solving’ the commodity problem. Through the study of the global value chain for coffee, the authors recast the ‘development problem’ for countries relying on commodity exports in entirely new ways. They do so by analysing the so-called coffee paradox – the coexistence of a ‘coffee boom’ in consuming countries and of a ‘coffee crisis’ in producing countries. New consumption patterns have emerged with the growing importance of specialty, fair trade and other ‘sustainable’ coffees. In consuming countries, coffee has become a fashionable drink and coffee bar chains have expanded rapidly. At the same time, international coffee prices have fallen dramatically and producers receive the lowest prices in decades. This book shows that the coffee paradox exists because what farmers sell and what consumers buy are becoming increasingly ‘different’ coffees. It is not material quality that contemporary coffee consumers pay for, but mostly symbolic quality and in-person services. As long as coffee farmers and their organizations do not control at least parts of this ‘immaterial’ production, they will keep receiving low prices. The Coffee Paradox seeks ways out from this situation by addressing some key questions: What kinds of quality attributes are combined in a coffee cup or coffee package? Who is producing these attributes? How can part of these attributes be produced by developing country farmers? To what extent are specialty and sustainable coffees achieving these objectives?
Author : Cora Dankers
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251050682
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Environmental and Social Standards, Certification and Labelling for Cash Crops written by Cora Dankers and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workplace safety and environmental sustainability can be promoted by agreed standards, certification and labelling. This publication contains 22 case studies on the impact of standards and certification programmes for cash crops in developing countries, including organic agriculture, fair-trade labelling, "Social Accountability 8000", the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Programme, the Ethical Trading Initiative, ISO-14001 and EurepGap. It examines the origins, scope and certification systems of these initiatives, as well as stakeholder involvement, the standard-setting process, verification methods, the relationship with the World Trade Organization agreements and the potential role of governments.
