50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade - Miles Litvinoff, John Madeley

50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2007
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-2584-2 (ISBN)
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'Lively, accessible and inspiring.' Paul Chandler, Chief Executive, Traidcraft
Fair trade is a growing global movement. A huge and widening range of fair trade goods are now available in the shops. Why is fair trade so important? This book provides 50 reasons why buying fair trade delivers a host of benefits to people and the planet. It's an inspiring account of how every consumer can play a part in improving and even saving lives and making global trade work better for poor people.



Did you know that buying fair trade:

-- Helps eradicate sweatshops

-- Helps end child labour

-- Reduces the debt burden on developing countries’ farmers

-- Ensures small-scale farmers can earn a living wage

-- Supports and protects the environment?



This book provides a critical guide to international trade and shows that fair trade presents a realistic and positive alternative for farmers and producers in developing countries. By improving schools, healthcare and working conditions, the fair trade movement has already saved lives and empowered whole communities. This book shows how every consumer can help make a difference in the fight to end poverty and inequality.

Based in the UK, Miles Litvinoff has a long history of involvement in fair trade and the global justice movement. Based in the UK, John Madeley had a long history of involvement in fair trade and the global justice movement. John worked on poverty and trade issues with United Nations organisations in Geneva, New York and Rome.

Foreword





Acknowledgements





Introduction





1.Back a system that benefits the poor


2.Pay small-scale growers a fairer price


3.Buy products you can trust


4.Help producers believe in tomorrow


5.Make trade more democratic


6. Put a human face on development


7.Ensure plantation workers earn a living wage


8.Empower women and girls


9.Enable people to eat


10. Save a cotton farmer's life


11.Be part of a growing global movement


12. Say Nuts! to unfair trade


13.Enjoy real quality, produced with pride


14. Send a child to school


15.Help make poverty history


16. Make your town a fair trade town


17.Shield small-scale growers from falling and erratic prices


18. Give someone's health a boost


19.Promote human rights


20. Free child carpet workers


21.Cut down the middlemen


22. Drink to a better world


23.Transform lives


24. Give bad balls the boot


25.Stamp out pesticide poisoning


26. Travel with respect


27.Support the environment [Be a friend of the Earth]


28. End child exploitation


29.Lift the debt burden


30. Say no to GMOs


31.Do something funky with your furniture


32. Rebuild lives and livelihoods


33.Make transnationals trade more fairly


34. Put paid to sweatshops


35.Buy into a longer-term relationship


36. Show solidarity with Palestinian farmers


37.Reach for the MDGs


38. Be a progressive coffee drinker


39.Help people overcome malnutrition


40. Co-operate with co-operatives


41.Prove the free-trade eggheads wrong


42. Make tomorrow's business happen today


43.Vote for trade justice


44. Enjoy that sweeter taste


45.Celebrate in March--and again in May!


46. Make markets really work for the poor


47.Invest in the future


48. Keep families and communities together


49.Defend diversity


50. Change the world!





Notes and sources





Appendix 1 Where to buy fair trade





Appendix 2 Fairtrade towns etc. in the UK





Appendix 3 Where to find out more





Index

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 308 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-7453-2584-X / 074532584X
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-2584-2 / 9780745325842
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