
50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade.
Title:
50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade.
Author:
Litvinoff, Miles.
ISBN:
9781849643344
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction -- 1. Back a system that benefits the poor -- 2. Pay small-scale farmers a fairer price -- 3. Buy products you can trust -- 4. Help producers believe in tomorrow -- 5. Make trade more democratic -- 6. Put a human face on development -- 7. Ensure plantation workers earn a living wage -- 8. Empower women and girls -- 9. Bring hope to coffee growers -- 10. Save a cotton farmer's life -- 11. Be part of a growing global movement -- 12. Say "Nuts!" to unfair trade -- 13. Enjoy real quality, produced with pride -- 14. Send a child to school -- 15. Keep on making poverty history -- 16. Make your town a Fairtrade Town -- 17. Build confidence, reduce risk -- 18. Give someone's health a boost -- 19. Promote human rights -- 20. Free child carpet workers -- 21. Bypass the intermediaries -- 22. Drink to a better world -- 23. Transform lives -- 24. Give bad balls the boot -- 25. Stamp out pesticide poisoning -- 26. Travel with respect -- 27. Be a friend of the earth -- 28. End child exploitation -- 29. Lift the debt burden -- 30. Say no to GMOs -- 31. Do something funky with your furniture -- 32. Rebuild lives and livelihoods -- 33. Make transnationals trade more fairly -- 34. Put paid to sweatshops -- 35. Buy into a longer-term relationship -- 36. Show solidarity with Palestinian farmers -- 37. Reach for the goals -- 38. Be a progressive coffee drinker -- 39. Send hope to a hungry country -- 40. Co-operate with co- operatives -- 41. Prove the free trade eggheads wrong -- 42. Make tomorrow's business happen today -- 43. Vote for trade justice -- 44. Enjoy that sweeter taste -- 45. Celebrate in March - and again in May -- 46. Make markets really work for the poor -- 47. Invest in fair trade -- 48. Keep families and communities together -- 49. Defend diversity -- 50. Change the world!.
Notes and sources -- Appendix 1: Where to buy fair trade -- Appendix 2: Fairtrade Towns and other areas in the UK -- Appendix 3: Where to find out more -- Acronyms.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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