Trade

The global food crisis and fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions?

Report for the Fairtrade Foundation (February 2009)

This report considers the challenges faced by the world’s 450 million smallholder farmers as a result
of the food price crisis. It analyses the effects of the crisis on fairtrade producers around the world,
including from field research in Uganda, asking whether fairtrade procuers are in a better position to
cope with price volatility.

Designing conflict-sensitive trade policy

Report for International Institute for Sustainable Development (January 2006)

This analysis argues that OECD countries are completely failing to design their trade policies to take
conflict into account, and makes recommendations on how they should.
Also available as a chapter in Oli Brown et al (ed), Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for peace and development (Earthscan, 2007)

Trade Invaders: The WTO and developing countries ‘Right to Protect’

Report for ActionAid (December 2005)

This report, written for ActionAid’s trade campaign, shows how developed countries are pushing trade
liberalisation on developing countries at the World Trade Organisation, especially in the negotiations on
services, agriculture and manufactured goods. Rather, developing countries need trade agreements to
provide greater ‘policy space’ to pursue strategies in their own interests.

17 ways the European Commission is pushing trade liberalisation on poor countries

Report for the European Trade Justice Movement (November 2005)
This report, written to support public campaigning in Europe, documents the numerous ways in which
the European Commission is pushing developing countries to further open their economies to Western corporations.

Key links

ActionAid
Bankwatch
BRIDGES Trade digest
Christian Aid
Focus on the Global South
Network Ideas
People & Planet
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
Seattle to Brussels Network
SEATINI
Third World Network
Trade Justice Movement (UK)
UNCTAD
War on Want
World Development Movement