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Fair Trade Institute (FTI)


The most comprehensive online collection of Fair Trade publications, where researchers convene for Fair Trade.


The Fair Trade Institute’s new and improved online collection is a collaborative effort between the Fair Trade Institute based in Switzerland and the Fair Trade Resource Network in the United States. With a shared interest in education and critical analysis about Fair Trade, the Fair Trade Institute and Fair Trade Resource Network have compiled this online collection of Fair Trade publications. On this site, you can:

  • - Find publications using a new and improved search feature
  • - Add your own publication, with a link to your article
  • - Manage your professional information available to the Fair Trade community

With continued input/contributions from researchers around the globe, the Fair Trade Institute will maintain its status as the most comprehensive online collection of Fair Trade publications worldwide.

Latest Fair Trade publications inserted

Smith (2008) "The Fair Trade Cup is ‘Two-Thirds Full’ not ‘Two-Thirds Empty’" A Response to the Adam Smith Report & An Alternative Way to Think About Measuring the Content of the Fair Trade Cup

Wright, Madrid (2007) Contesting Fair Trade in Colombia's Cut-Flower Industry: A Case of Cultural Injustice Cultural Sociology

Wright (2004) Consuming Lives, Consuming Landscapes: Interpreting Advertisements for Cafédirect Coffees Journal of International Development

Ballet, Carimentrand (2007) Le commerce équitable collection Transversale débats, éditions Ellipses

Caceres, Carimentrand, Wilkinson (2006) Fair Trade and Quinoa from the Southern Bolivian Altiplano Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization