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Recent Book Publications

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Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide
A new blog was set-up by the author, Jaqueline DeCarlo, to accompany her insightful and much-needed book.
Three Cups of Tea
A local, Portland author shares this non-fiction story about helping build schools (and so much more) in Pakistan.
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the world of fair trade coffee
Dean’s Beans owner and certified […]

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Linguistic Imperialism

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Millions of people in the developing world speak native languages that are very different from English. Because of the monolingual emphasis with which English is taught, it tends to not only downgrade the mother tongues of learners, but of tragically undervaluing the rich multilingualism which is typical of most of the developing world.
Linguicism, in regards […]

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Corporate Companies Fail to Build Capacity and Transparency

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The definition of “Capacity building” in regards to the International principles for Fair Trade states:

“Fair trade is a means to develop producers’ independence. Fair trade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organizations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets.”

Now that Fair trade coffee is a good investment, corporate […]

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