Home
Arabica Robusta's Library tagged → View Popular
Fair Trade labelling as a development tool « Brussels Development Briefings
Gelkha Buitrago agreed with Ms. Osterhaus that Fair Trade should follow a holistic approach in which trading standards and market access are used as “development tools” - to “strengthen the development and empowerment of the producer organizations.“.
Haiti's poor driven to the edge
As the Wall Street Journal reported, "The situation in Haiti underscored some of the problems afflicting the world's poorest countries. Haiti has enough food in the marketplace to feed its populace, but prices have increased beyond the means of many of the urban poor to pay for it."
-
Préval was forced to make a statement about the crisis, but his initial comments seemed a calculated slap in the face to the Haitian poor--such as his suggestion that if Haitians could afford cell phones, they should be able to afford to feed their families. Préval also chided protesters for tarnishing the image of Haiti among the international business community.
[Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] Make Fair Trade? Oxfam and Free Trade (a debate)
-
the market access focus does, as Food First noted in its response to the Oxfam Report, promote the paradigm of export-oriented growth, since it is monopolistic export agricultural interests that will be the main beneficiaries of greater agricultural market access to northern markets. Even in the case of staple foods like rice and corn, it is not small farmers that benefit but big middlemen. A focus on market access for agricultural products from the South in the North will also increase pressures on developing countries to open up their markets as the quid pro quo for the accelerated opening of markets in the North. Thus, this strategy simply undermines the effort of many small-holder-based agrarian movements in the South to reorient production from export agriculture based on big landed and corporate interests to small-farmer based production systems producing principally for the local market and protected by tariffs and quotas from unfair competition by subsidized products dumped by the Northern countries.
Fair Trade or food miles? « Brussels Development Briefings
-
The food miles debate is increasing the demand for local foods, which could become a threat to air freighted Fair Trade products.
Here we go again - lies, damn lies and world trade negotiations « Angry African on the Loose
Is China the key to Africa's development? - By Eliza Barclay - Slate Magazine
"The Chinese medicines are making people sick, and the electrical wires are not safe," said Spake. "But China is giving the African people a chance to do business and make more money, and for some people that means being able to buy food to eat."
TRADE: 'EPAs WILL DESTROY AFRICAN ECONOMIES'
The economic partnership agreements (EPAs), proposed by the European Union (EU) to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, constitute a "neo-colonial instrument" which will destroy the economic and social basis in African states, according to some
WTO Lauds Civil Society Impact
Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO) Mr. Pascal Lamy has commended the efforts of civil society groups on trade negotiations, environmental issues and agriculture, to ensure a successful globalisation process.
Why Brazil Has Become One of the Top Four Investment Destinations in the World
Why progressives were right to distrust Lula from the beginning.
DEVELOPMENT: Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries
The new free trade agreements being signed up between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report Tuesday.
AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: The Rest of the Story: a Response to Stephen Pizzo
The details might vary, but the approach favored by Pizzo and, as he says, George W. Bush and La Raza (along with the majority of Congressional Democrats, the NAACP and forward-looking unions like UNITE HERE!) is basically the same. The internal incoheren
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Groups interested in trade
-
We buy used cars!
Get a free appraisal today ...
Items: 2 | Visits: 60
Created by: popupmike
Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »
Join Diigo