Fair trade articles in Mexico, particularly in Oaxaca.
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: The Fair Trade Movement, Mexican Coffee Producers and a European NGO Coalition
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | 
Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: Introduction
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns ...
Transnational Solidarity Movements and the Intangible Strategies
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
The two main theories concerning Transnational Social Movements are the Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and to a less extent the New Social Movements (NSM’s) Theory. It seems that both the RM and NSMs theories appear to ...
The Role of Values in Transnational Social Movements
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
A central concern of this paper is the role of values as a target and as key symbolic element of movements strategies. Values are a factor not only in transnational movements, but also in the domestic ...
The Norm Implementation Role of Transnational Social Movements
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
Among the multiple definitions of a social movements, some categorize the manifestations and general aims that move activism. A short review follows of some of the different classifications of social movements, principally transnational ones. R. Cohen, ...
Fair Trade as a Movement
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
At the present time neo-liberal values, whose beginning some situate in the Bretton Woods conference, are spreading and starting to prevail in the world political economy, in governments’ and multilateral agencies’ policies. However this happens mostly ...
Some considerations about the trajectory of the Fair Trade Market
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
As L. Waridel (2002: 93) points out, it is not easy to say when the Fair Trade movement started or whether it is situated exclusively in the North. None of the literature reviewed about Fair Trade ...
Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO Int)
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: certificacion, certification, coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
In 1997, the three certification initiatives TransFair, Max Havelaar, and the Fair Trade Foundation, along with Swedish and a Finnish labelling organisations with their own satellite organisations across Europe, America, and Asia, came together to build ...
Symbolic values and the symbolic power of values
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
Any consumer that has read a Fair Trade leaflet about how the system works, is aware that he or she is paying a higher price than for conventional products, as one of the FT mechanisms that ...
Peasant movements struggles for the appropriation of the production process
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
This section will not review in depth the concept of peasantry and the categorizations associated with it, but develop a set of starting points to frame in broad terms this approach to the productive character of ...
Some basic factors introducing the peasantry in Mexico
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
This section does not try to make a summary, but stresses three key moments that contributed to shape the character and development of the peasantry as a social, economical and political actor in the 20th century. ...
Some actors in the independent peasant movement
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
At the end of the 1970 the first attempts began for the coordination of a national peasant movement, and from this decade onwards the peasant struggles, previously isolated by regions or levels of strength, became of ...
Commercialisation and the demand for improved production conditions
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
As Stavenhagen asserts, in the traditional view of the anthropologist, commercial exchange of products, in addition to outside wage labour, were commonly seen as external factors disturbing communal stability and self-sufficiency, which were regarded as the ...
Local and Global Notions of Trade Justice: The Case Studies of UCIRI and the Trade Justice Movement
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
For many years, coffee prices were controlled by the intervention of the Coffee International Organization (CIO), which regulated prices at a relatively stable level above those that would have existed in a non-regulated market. An unmeasured ...
UCIRI in Oaxaca, Mexico
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
The Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region includes peasant coffee producers from 53 different communities in the lowlands of the Sierra Juarez, mainly within five different municipalities. They belong to the Zapotec (from the ...
The role of the Church in grassroots movements (Fair trade)
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
UCIRI’s history has been closely linked to a Catholic missionary team and specially to the Dutch Priest Frans van der Hoff, who settled in the area in 1980. Although the producers were already involved already in ...
The Trade Justice Movement
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
The Trade Justice Movement is a young coalition founded at the end of the year 2000 and based in London, most of whose members are British organisations. The TJM ‘...campaigns for a fundamental change in the ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: final considerations
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
This paper has explored the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. The ...
Acronyms and Bibliography
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Más información sobre: coffee, fair trade, ngos, oaxaca, uciri,
ARIC: Asociación Rural de Interés ColectivoATO’s: Alternative Trading OrganisationsCCI: Central Campesina IndependienteCEC: Centro de Educación CampesinaCIO: Coffee International OrganizationCIOAC: Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y CampesinosCNC: Confederación Nacional CampesinaCNPA: Coordinadora Nacional Plan de AyalaCOCEI: Coalición Obrero ...
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