What is the Fair Trade Research Group at Colorado State doing about Fair Trade?
The Fair Trade Research Group (FTRG) at Colorado State is supporting Fair Trade research. In the preface to their March 2003 Report the FTRG states: Fair Trade has emerged as a potentially important movement for social change in Europe, North America, and regions of the developing world. Fair Trade challenges historically unequal international market relations, seeking to transform North-South trade into an avenue for producer empowerment and poverty alleviation. Markets for Fair Trade coffee and other items link ethically minded Northern consumers with democratically organized groups of poor Southern producers. The goal of this alliance is to provide disadvantaged producers a chance to “increase their control over their own future, have a fair and just return for their work, continuity of income and decent working and living conditions through sustainable development” (Fairtrade Foundation, 2002). Both celebratory and less sanguine accounts of Fair Trade abound in popular and scholarl
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