Fighting the Tide: Alternative Trade Organizations in the Era of Global Free Trade

By M. Leclair. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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4. Chris Bacon
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Citations in the corpus

• What Tanzania's coffee farmers can teach the world: a performance-based look at the fair trade–free trade debate (2005, background): “studies, which focus on the income effects of higher prices to farmers (Zehner, 2003, 2002; Lindsey, 2003; LeClair, 2002; Maseland and de Vaal, 2002), tend to conclude in favor of free trade approaches.”
• Coffee, Co-operatives and Competition: The Impact of Fair Trade (2004, background): “Scholars from the fields of C M I 2 anthropology and sociology have published material on the issue (Rice 2001, Auroi 2000, Renard 1996), but few economists seem to have taken interest in it so far, with the exception of LeClair (2002), who writes mainly about alternative trading organisations.”
• The Fair Trade Movement: Parameters, Issues and Future Research (2004, background): “While generally Leclair (2002) and Maseland & De Vaal (2002) find in favour of Fair Trade in answer to these questions, this is by no means unequivocally so; under certain conditions, it seems, both free trade and protectionism work better than Fair Trade, and direct donation is also claimed to be…”
• Removing the Veil? (2003, background): “However, it is not sufficient to define fair trade as a movement that “entails the marketing of products at greater than free market prices” (Leclair, 2002, p. 949).”
• North-South Trade and the Distribution of Environmental Goods and Burdens: a Biophysical Perspective (2004, background): “As they offer products at prices that are higher than world market averages, they also include a compensation for incurred external environmental (and social) costs (LeClair, 2002).”
• Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? (2004, background): “Leclair (2002) provides a more comprehensive summary of the alternative trade organizations and the fair trade of crafts as well as food products.”
• "Trade matters in the fight against poverty": narratives, perceptions, and (lack of) evidence in the case of fish trade in Africa. (2010, background): “…still express strong reservation regard- ing the real benefits of open economies and trade for developing countries, in particular in relation to agricultural commodities which usually represent a major part of their exports (Busch & Bain, 2004; Leclair, 2002; Oxfam, 2002; Ponte, 2002; Sick, 1997).”
• What do Corporations have to do with Fair Trade? Positive and Normative Analysis from a Value Chain Perspective (2009, background): “…of a Nicaraguan coffee (Café Nica) for the U.S. market by a small co-operative, Equal Exchange.1 The explicit motivation of solidarity which underlay the production of this and similar products led some to characterize these practices as solidarity trade (Low and Davenport, 2005; LeClair, 2002).”