Fair trade articles in Mexico, particularly in Oaxaca.
Some basic factors introducing the peasantry in Mexico
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Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005
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. To understand the dynamic of agricultural producers, it is convenient, first, to be situated in the context of the ...
Some actors in the independent peasant movement
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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 national character. The fight for land and the formation of the big independent peasant centrals were generalized throughout the ...
Commercialisation and the demand for improved production conditions
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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 backbone of peasant communities (1978: 27). Currently, the market has been a main concern of both researchers on agricultural ...
Local and Global Notions of Trade Justice: The Case Studies of UCIRI and the Trade Justice Movement
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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 increase in coffee reserves generated a crisis where the economic consensus of the CIO was broken down, and the ...
UCIRI in Oaxaca, Mexico
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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 Sierra), Mixe and Chontal ethnic groups, and founded UCIRI in 1984, which is now legally registered to export coffee ...
The role of the Church in grassroots movements (Fair trade)
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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 their own organization process, he started a dynamic of reflection within the communities about the causes underlying their problems ...
The Trade Justice Movement
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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 unjust trade rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all’ (TJM, 2002). ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: final considerations
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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 northern initiatives appear to assume a natural narrative link with the grassroots character of the southern producers’ struggle for ...
Acronyms and Bibliography
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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 Campesino Estudiantil del Istmo de TehuantepecCONACYT: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaEFTA: European Fair Trade AssociationEZLN: Ejercito Zapatista de ...
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