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| Contents | 2-3
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| Towards fairer trade | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| Trading is part of life for most farmers, with markets being the hub of the community. Farmers who depend on local, regional or global markets for the sale of their produce are always looking for ways... |  |
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| Fairtrade fruit: Successes, challenges and dilemmas | 6-7
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| Dave Boselie |
This article presents the challenges that come with growth, and the dilemmas regarding the expansion of the organic and fair
trade export markets, based on the experiences of Europe’s foremost ... | |
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| Meeting the challenges of exporting mangoes from Burkina Faso | 8-9
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| Hans-Willem van der Waal |
| Many small scale farmers in Burkina Faso own mango trees, while European consumers increasingly like fresh mangoes. How can they be linked? This has been tried in different ways for almost a decade. I... | |
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| The Fair Trade Platform: Bolivian producers lobby for change | 10-11
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| Jean-Sebastien Levesque, Christina Keys |
| El Ceibo is an active member of the Fair Trade Platform, a national initiative that groups 18 producers’ associations and lobbies the government to meet the needs of small producers. The Platform was ... | |
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| Improved shea butter trading through certification | 12-13
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| Cindy D'Auteuil |
| The Union of Women Producers of Shea Products of Sissili and Ziro (UGPPK-S/Z) counts members from 53 clusters of 38 villages in the provinces of Sissili and Ziro, in Burkina Faso. It is commonly known... | |
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| Agroecological cotton and fair trade make the difference | 14-15
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| Pedro Jorge BF Lima |
| Three years ago, Veja Fair Trade, a French company, went to Brazil in search of organic cotton to make sports shoes for the European fair trade market. Visiting the ESPLAR website, they found informat... | |
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| Filipino handicrafts provide income and protect the forests | 16-17
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| Michelle Arts |
| The Non-Timber Forest Products Task Force, in the Philippines, has been running its handicraft programme for five years. It aims at poverty alleviation and the sustainable use of non-timber forest res... | |
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| Organic and fair trade products attract new customers | 18
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| Frank van Schoubroeck |
| A three minute walk away from the ILEIA office in Amersfoort is a big supermarket called PLUS. In November 2007, two renowned Dutch NGOs, Milieudefensie and Solidaridad, awarded the manager a prize fo... | |
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| Fair to the last drop: Corporate challenges to Fairtrade | 19-21
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| Eric Holt-Giménez, Ian Bailey, Devon Sampson |
| The Fairtrade Labelling Organization International (FLO) and Fairtrade certifiers promote the idea that Fairtrade should become more “mainstream”. Most recent criticism revolves around this strategy. ... | |
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| Direct trade that benefits poor communities in India and the U.K. | 22-23
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| Mari Marcel Thekaekara |
| “Just Change” is becoming well known in fair trade and development circles around the world. It is an initiative which aims to establish an alternative and direct trading mechanism that will benefit p... | |
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| Growing a local organic movement: The Mexican Network of Organic Markets | 24-27
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| Erin Nelson, Rita Schwentesius Rindermann, Laura Gómez Tovar, Manuel Angel Gomez Cruz |
| Although 85 percent of all organic goods produced in Mexico are sent abroad, the interest in organic products within the country has grown considerably. Many Mexican grocery stores now carry organic g... | |
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| Participatory Guarantee Systems offer alternative certification | 26-27
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| Tegan Renner |
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| Building grower-consumer alliances for confronting the coffee crisis | 28-29
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| Roberta Jaffe, Devon Sampson, Annie Shattuck |
| In 2001, world coffee prices tumbled to all-time lows, devastating coffee-dependent farm families and their communities, in what became known as the global “coffee crisis.” Out of necessity, many farm... | |
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| Communication technologies support trade in Africa | 30-31
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| Andreas Mandler |
| Trading agricultural commodities on rural markets in Africa is usually a personal affair. Small scale farmers generally know their clients very well, but they produce limited quantities, and have few ... | |
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| Community Supported Agriculture: An alternative local food system | 32-34
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| Petra van de Kop, Klaas Nijhof, Henk Kloen, Arnoud Braun, Arnoud R. Braun - Director |
| In a situation of growing globalisation of food systems, questions are increasingly being raised about the integrity of our food supply, the impact of its production on the environment and animal welf... | |
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| Annual fair brings farmers and consumers together | 35
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| Oluwagbemiga Ademola Dada |
| Mr. Babafemi is a small scale farmer living in a village close to Ibadan, Nigeria’s largest city. He cultivates cocoa, yam and fruit, and on the rest of his land he raises livestock. He would like to ... | |
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| Sources | 36-37
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| Networking | 38
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| New Books | 39
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| Readers' Survey 2007 - Thank you for your time! | 40
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| Who are you, why do you read the LEISA Magazine and to what extent do you like it? To be able to answer these questions, we sent you a questionnaire last March. Some 1100 readers from over sixty count... | |
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