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Two perspectives of accountability and impact of fair trade: grant makers and producers

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 [...]
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Accountability and Impact (Ian Barney, Twin Trading)

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 [...]
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Open space: EPAs (economic partnership agreement)

By Lucy | Published: November 7, 2009
The fundamental principle for EPAs is a free market. This may work for European countries as they are at the same level of development, economical infrastructure is in place. However it does not work for the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) countries. It is not an even playing ground; odds are heavily stacked against ACPs not least because of the negotiation process required to trade in the EU (for example intellectual property rights – some countries may not be able to negotiate this). Bilateral trade agreements have a major drawback: they take no account of development needs. Trade negotiations may seem dull but when it comes to rich countries ripping off poorer countries the fair trade movement can understand this and empathise with this so should be a part of that process. (Mike Gidney).
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