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Some actors in the independent peasant movement
Published on May 31, 2005 | 
More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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)
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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
Published on May 31, 2005 | More information about: 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 ...
Sustainable consumption in México
Published on April 8, 2005 | More information about: consumidores, mexico,
Each of us has the capability of influencing our environment in different ways: some of us favor the conservation of biodiversity, yet others press for the improvement of standards of living of the poor in our ...
Global Fair Trade, an alternative to the liberal market (I)
Published on October 24, 2004 | More information about: capitalismo, comercio justo, fair trade, globalizacion, mexico,
Two trends have emerged in the last years, which could place Fair Trade as an alternative to a liberal regulation of international trade, such as the WTO promotes it. For the first time at the WTO ...
Global Fair Trade, an alternative to the liberal market (II)
Published on October 24, 2004 | More information about: capitalismo, comercio justo, fair trade, globalizacion, mexico,
Fair Trade as a model for alternative regulations In its practices, Fair Trade takes into account social, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions. It can thus be seen as an alternative to a liberal regulation of the ...
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Published on June 21, 2003
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Published on June 21, 2003
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