By Lucy | Published: November 7, 2009
Louise Herring talking about Comic Relief and its role as grant maker and fundraiser, a charity and a business. How do you measure the impact of supporting fair trade producers? It’s a qualitative & quantitative process but how do we get everyone’s views? We could build relationships with producers directly but you need to fully [...]
By Lucy | Published: November 7, 2009
TWIN is a membership organisation that has been running for 25 years. Focused on Latin America and Africa, TWIN’s work started around bartering; e.g. swapping cigars from Cuba for coffee in Africa. TWIN only works with small holder farms, building democratic systems. They believe in a better equitable distribution of risks and rewards; a different [...]
Fair Trade 2.0 conversation starts with a focus on RFID tagging and data: - On the consumer end you run the risk that through electronic tagging consumption habits ever more closely monitored - people talk about the internet of things - the moment something is produced it is RFID tagged. The question is whose data [...]
Two perspectives of accountability and impact of fair trade: grant makers and producers