Redeye

Fair trade not empowering producers

| October 26, 2011

Show Notes:

Longtime activist Ian Hussey says that the fair-trade bureaucracy has centralized power in the Global North and that producers have little say in their working and living conditions. Ian Hussey was co-founding national co-ordinator of the Canadian Student Fair Trade Network. He's the author of a recent article in Briarpatch magazine titled Fair Trade and Empire.

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