Monthly Archives: December 2012

324. Measuring fairness in trading relationships

2012-12-06 Comments Off on 324. Measuring fairness in trading relationships

When our CAFE Livelihoods project in Mexico and Central America ended in 2011, several people asked me what I considered the signature successes of the project.  I was sitting on three years of data from 4,633 farms tracking changes in productivity, income, coffee quality, access to infrastructure, etc.  But instead of citing these data, I […]

323. “Empowerment partnerships” for FT4All?

2012-12-04 Comments Off on 323. “Empowerment partnerships” for FT4All?

I published a series of posts last week that included observations and recommendations for the future of Fair Trade for All based on our experience in Colombia with one of the first Fair Trade Certification pilots for independent smallholder farmers.  What I didn’t include was a description of a strategy we have applied in the […]