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Author: Samantha Lacey
Category: New / International / Development
Pages: 96

Description:
The co-operative and Fair Trade movements have each played important roles in challenging the inequalities and exploitative practices of market driven supply chains dominated by multinational corporations. In contrast, the Fair Trade and co-operative movements have endeavoured to empower and inform both producers and consumers and have often worked together to this end. This paper aims to examine this rich history of empowerment and to generate ideas and recommendations for how these movements can work together to provide an alternative to purely profit driven value chains. The findings are based on interviews with a range of co-operative and Fair Trade stakeholders as well as experts in the field. Co-operative College Paper 14.

Author: Johnston Birchall and Richard Simmons
Category: New / International / Development
Pages: 60

Description:
This paper looks at efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the problems that hinder development, with evidence from Sri Lanka and Tanzania compiled during a series of interviews. The first publication from the Co-operatives for Development programme at the Co-operative College. College Paper 13.

Author: Stirling Smith and Cilla Ross
Category: Development
Pages: 40

Description:
The majority of workers in the world today are in the informal economy. They get whatever work they can. It may be hazardous and it almost certainly will not provide earnings much above subsistence level. The SYNDICOOP approach offers an alternative. It shows that workers can be organised in a way that offers some improvements in their daily lives and provides the voice that workers need. The stories in this publication describe the difference that this approach has made in East Africa.