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The innovation of the fair trade movement to foster sustainability

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 14:40 authored by Ana Cristina Ribeiro Duthie, Frederick GaleFrederick Gale, Hannah Murphy-GregoryHannah Murphy-Gregory
Much of the awareness in society towards sustainable development objectives has been fostered by United Nations (UN) programmes, non-governmental organisations and social movements they have inspired. Within the stream of social change occurred after the second world war, fair trade initiative innovated as a social movement by offering an international trade model to make difference in producers’ lives. Mainstream fair trade organisations carried social responsibility values of addressing targets such as poverty alleviation; reducing market inequalities North-South; protecting environment; enabling fair work conditions; promoting responsible consumption and production; ensuring food security. Given these objectives, fair trade movement can be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by UN in 2015; and with the triple bottom line of sustainability. Those synergies can be demonstrated across fair trade organisations’ social responsibility and sustainability reports. Materials and methods of this paper included a review of the corporate social responsibility and sustainability reports of the mainstream fair trade organisations from 2000 to date. Findings show a consistency among terms common to the fair trade reported aims and the SDGs. A comparative analysis indicates the spectrum of sustainability topics progressively addressed by the fair trade movement since at least 2000. This review may contribute to guide government policies and socially focused businesses to foster sustainability goals through innovations within food systems, to attain a sustainable agriculture and rural development.

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Publication title

Revista Gestão & Sustentabilidade Ambiental: Proceedings of the 2020 World Symposium on Sustainability

Volume

9

Editors

JA Henkes

Pagination

996-1010

ISSN

2238-8753

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina

Place of publication

Brazil

Event title

World Symposium on Sustainability/ BRIDGE 2019

Event Venue

Florianopolis/Palhoca Santa Catarina, Brazil

Date of Event (Start Date)

2019-09-17

Date of Event (End Date)

2019-09-19

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Copyright unknown

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Trade and environment; Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified

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