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Beyond a Fair Price: the Co-operative Movement and Fair Trade
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.
