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Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on market-based approach to alleviating global poverty and promoting sustainability. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing their rights of, disadvantaged producers and workers.
Key fair trade principles ... Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers ... Safe working conditions ... Transparency and accountability ... Payment of a fair price ... Gender equality ... Environmental protection (usually)
The current Fair Trade movement focuses on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, and so on.
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Lessons 4
- Lesson
- Food Labeling: Explained
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- Lesson
- TED: Thinking Green
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People 11
- kevingraham1
- Yali
- toubibpat
- aronfitz
- Enkerli
- Andrew Brown
- chermann
- RLLillis
- hcraig
- Carsten
- JohnPhilipGreen
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- Discussion
- Fair trade vs local
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