Alternative trade in bananas: Obstacles and opportunities for progressive social change in the global economy

By D. Murray, Laura T. Raynolds. 2000

131 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. A. Shreck
2. D. Reed
3. G. Moore
4. L. Phillips
5. A. Nicholls
6. E. Barham
7. W. Low
8. E. Davenport

In Plant Science

1. A. Shreck
2. D. Reed
3. A. Nicholls
4. G. Moore
5. Lawrence Busch
6. L. Phillips
7. E. Barham
8. W. Low

In Strategy and Management

1. D. Reed
2. A. Nicholls
3. G. Moore
4. A. Shreck
5. E. Barham
6. Lawrence Busch
7. L. Phillips
8. W. Low

Citations in the corpus

• Removing the Veil? (2003, background): “FDB clearly felt that it could use the alliances’ label to replace the fairtrade bananas in the conscientious-consumer niche.”
• Strategic Options in Fair Trade Retailing (2002, background): “Paralleling the rise in consumer interest and demand, academic scholarship exploring fair trade retailing has also developed strongly in recent times (see, for instance, Strong, 1996, 1997; Whysall, 1998; Bird and Hughes, 1997; Raynolds, 2000; Murray and Raynolds, 2000; Tallontire, 2000, etc.).”
• Food and Globalization (2006, background): “…researchers are wise enough not to point to fair trade as a panacea, there are glimmerings of hope that these efforts raise incomes for producers and improve the quality of their environment (McKenna & Campbell 2002; Murray & Raynolds 2000; Raynolds & Murray 1998; Raynolds 2000, 2002; Renard 1999).”
• What do Corporations have to do with Fair Trade? Positive and Normative Analysis from a Value Chain Perspective (2009, background): “These ATOs, such as AgroFair (which was established by the Dutch NGO Solidaridad, with 50 per cent ownership by small producers in Africa and Latin America), took special care in order to select plantations that had strong reputations for corporate responsibility (La Cruz, 2005; Shreck, 2005; Murray”
• Towards a theory of values-based labeling (2002, background): “Raynolds and Murray (1998) and Murray and Raynolds (2000), who have written extensively about labeling primarily in relation to fair trade movements, also frame their arguments in terms of re-embedding the economy in the social and environmental relations on which it depends.”
• Mainstreaming fair trade: adoption, assimilation, appropriation (2006, background): “In this paper we explore the ways in which the movement challenges aspects of hegemony, including colonialism, and free trade, to ‘transform traditionally exploitative global production and trade relations’ (Murray and Raynolds, 2000 , p.”
• Resistance, redistribution, and power in the Fair Trade banana initiative (2005, background): “The Fair Trade movement critiques the conventional agro-food system by connecting producers in the South with consumers in the North through alternative trade channels that are more equitable than those typical of conventional trade networks (Murray and Raynolds, 2000; Raynolds, 2002; Renard, 2003).”
• New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System* (2004, background): “…above, unions were excluded from the initial meetings and were only invited to subsequent meetings after the 5 One partial exception is Devco, the special committee of the ISO responsible for addressing special concerns of developing nations. standards were developed (Murray and Raynolds 2000).”
• The Fair Trade Movement: Parameters, Issues and Future Research (2004, background): “Murray & Raynolds (2000) make similar points about organic food‟s detachment from social justice issues, and in their example of Chiquita‟s agreement with the largest Danish retailer FDB to sell Rainforest Alliance certified bananas, and the subsequent reduction of Fair Trade certified bananas from…”
• Social and environmental attributes of food products in an emerging mass market: Challenges of signaling and consumer perception, with European illustrations (2006, background): “support a p ositive answer to that question, that values are shared. Murray and Raynolds (2000)”
• Re-embedding global agriculture: The international organic and fair trade movements (2000, background): “Research suggests that many corporations are trying to bolster their legitimacy by adopting the rhetoric of environmental and/or social responsibility, though typically this proves to be little more than a corporate face lift (Bonanno and Constance, 1996; Lawrence et al., 1998; Murray and Raynolds, ”