MNCs Can Devalue the Brand of "Fair Trade" and Exclude Co-operatives
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Date
2013
Authors
Reed, Darryl
Crowell, Erbin
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Abstract
Creating a network of co-operatives may counter the dominance that MNCs hold on Fair Trade. This includes a joint effort to market and support the goods of small producers, influence public policy, and to develop a separate product certification system to identify goods that are produced and traded ethically.
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Globalization, Economics, Business
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Crowell, E., & Reed, D. (2009). Fair trade: A model for international co-operation among co-operatives? In D. Reed & J. McMurtry (Eds.), Co-operatives in a global economy: The challenges of co-operation across borders (pp.141-177). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.