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Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquilodoras

Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and hea ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes

In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dra ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:37

Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA

Reviewed by Luz María de la Mora, Trade Representative of the Mexican Ministry of Economy at the EU, Brussels Author:  Bair, Jennifer ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Fostering “Why not?” social initiatives – beyond business and governments

In this article, we challenge the notion that complex and resilient problems – such as global warming and poverty – will have to be resolved by governments or responsible corporations. Instead, we argue for the potency of social initiatives ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:12

The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among th ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46

Knowledge, communication, development: a perspective from Latin America

Knowledge in development has been perceived as a one-way commodity that developed nations could bring ‘down to’ the level of ‘developing countries’. Sharing knowledge is generally seen as a North–South operation. This vertical approach to knowledge in dev ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?

The global garment-manufacturing industry will confront significant changes from 2005, when the system of quotas established under the Multi-Fibre Agreement comes to an end. These changes pose serious threats to jobs in the Central American assembly plant ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50

Never the twain shall meet? Women's organisations and trade unions in the maquila industry in Central America

The garment and textile factories and assembly plants in the Central American free trade zones, known as the maquila industry, have given rise to new actors on the labour scene, as women's organisations and local monitoring groups now work alongside the t ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible impr ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50

Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media

The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media pract ...

Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:58