Who owns fairtrade?

24 February 2009

Pauline Tiffen

Debate at LSE on fair trade and its future

Who Owns Fairtrade? a debate at LSE on 24th February 2009

About the authors

Pauline Tiffen

Pauline works globally as an independent consultant and advisor to producer organisations, social businesses, donors, banks and corporations on fair trade, sustainability, partnerships, branding, finance and labor rights in supply chains - mainly in agriculture. She is a non-executive director of several non-profits and social businesses include the Friends of the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences, the Pluto Educational Trust (launched in 2011 - http://www.plutoeducational.org) and Divine Chocolate.

Recent publications from Alternative Regionalisms

Crisis and alternatives In the long term we have to transcend capitalism as it cannot ensure a decent livelihood for all nor is it compatible with preserving necessary ecological balances. In the short-term we must start out with basic social democratic demands.	Occupy the left or ignore it? Why the traditional Left needs to understand, be willing to be challenged, and fully embrace the Occupy and Indignado movements.
Financial Governance Beyond the Crisis Dr. Pedro Paez talks about the creation of a new financial architecture in Latin America, based on principles of redistribution, environmental sustainability and social cohesion rather than market principles that dominated the old architecture.	The impact of free trade on the financial crisis … and vice versa Behind the currency wars and the worsening global economic crisis lies a largely unquestioned free trade model that both contributed to the crisis and, without radical reform, is a major obstacle to overcoming it.