What difference does Fair Trade make?
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About the video: ‘What difference does Fair Trade make?’
Fair trade started in the 1970s by organizations such as Oxfam (UK), SOS (Holland) and Gepa (Germany). Since then the fair trade market has grown dramatically and now enjoys substantial market share in many countries throughout Europe and North America. Rice describes the US as the “new kid on the fair trade block.” However, since TransFair USA began in 1998 as the only certifier operating in the US, the American fair trade market has grown to surpass that of Europe’s.
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Filmed: San Francisco, USA on 27 March 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Paul Rice
Paul Rice is President and CEO of TransFair USA, the only Fair Trade certifier in the United States.
TransFair has developed business partnerships with over 650 US companies (including such leading brands as Starbucks, P&G, Green Mountain and Dunkin’ Donuts), launched Fair Trade coffee into 50,000 retail outlets nationwide, certified over 160 million pounds of Fair Trade coffee.
In 2000 Paul Rice has received the Ashoka Fellowship for his pioneering work in fair trade and in 2002 he was named by the Klaus Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as one of the world’s top 40 Social Entrepreneurs. He has authored several publications including “Sustainable Coffee at the Crossroads” (1999).
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