Fair Trade Library

• Fair Trade Resource Institute
  The world's largest online library of Fair Trade publications is an initiative of the Fair Trade Institute in Switzerland and the Fair Trade Resource Network in the US. It has more than 250 titles about Fair Trade available in three languages. Check out the library to find out more.

Studies and articles

General

• Aid or Trade? Managing fair trade commercial and NGO partnerships
• Who benefits from sustainable trade?
• Do fair trade partnerships work?
• Niche marketing: a solution to the adverse effects of globalisation

Opportunities

• Creating market opportunities for small enterprises: experiences of the Fair Trade movement
• Making Global Trade work for people
• Trade for Life: making trade work for poor people
• Making markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development

Challenges

• Challenges facing Fair Trade: which way now?
• Richer or Poorer? Achievements and challenges for ethical trade
• The challenges of assessing the poverty impact of ethical trading: what can be learnt from fair trade initiatives and the sustainable livelihoods approach?

Markets

• Fair Trade Trends Report for US, Canada and Pacific Rim
• Global consumer conscience boosting Fair Trade sales

Coffee

• Coffee markets: new paradigms in global supply and demand
• Grounds for complaint: fair trade and the coffee crisis
• Mugged: poverty in your coffee cup
• Poverty alleviation through participation in fair trade coffee networks: existing research and critical issues
• The coffee crisis
• The 'latte revolution'?: winners and losers in the restructuring of the global coffee marketing chain
• Towards more sustainable coffee

Fruit

• Fruit: Who Reaps the Fruit?

Cotton and Textiles

• Fair Trade and Textiles: A comparative analysis of marketing alternatives for textile companies in transition to Fair Trade

Regional

Latin America

• Fair trade in the Americas? Three reasons to say no to the FTAA
• Supermarkets and farming in Latin America: pointing directions for elsewhere?

Africa

• Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods: Volta River Estates Fairtrade bananas case study
• Facilitating market access for South Africa's disadvantaged communities and population groups through "fair trade in tourism"
• How fair is ethical trade? A look at Uganda's organic cotton sector

Reading Lists

• Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) Reading List