Table of Contents

Foreword by Stan and Mari Marcel Thekaekara Introduction 1 Mexico: a cautionary tale 2 Coffee in Peru 3 Cocoa in Ghana 4 Bananas in Guatemala and the Caribbean 5 Blue jeans 6 Buying it: fair trade in the North 7 Fair trade's future: an infant among giants Contacts Index

About the Author

David Ransom has been a co-editor of New Internationalist magazine since 1989. He has edited a wide range of magazines, including several on fair trade. Prior to that he was a teacher and community worker in the East End of London. He spent several years at the London School of Economics working on the economic history of Latin America.

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