Fair trade general resources
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Barratt Brown, Michael. Fair Trade; Reform and Realities in the International Trading System. New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993.
Coote, Belinda. The Trade Trap: Poverty and the Global Commodity Markets. Oxford: Oxfam UK, 1996.
Jaffee, Daniel et. al., 2004. "Bringing the 'Moral Charge' Home: Fair Trade Within the North and Within the South." Rural Sociology 69:2, p. 169-196
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking Penguin Books, 1985.
Ellwood, Wayne and John McMurtry. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization. Oxford: New Internationalist/Verso, 2001.
Ransom, David. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade. New Internationalist/Verso, 2001.
Tiffen, Pauline and Simon Zadek. "Dealing with and in the Global Economy: Fairer Trade in Latin America", Chapter 6 in Mediating Sustainability, Kumarian Press, 1998.
Thomson, Bob. "Lessons Learned: Fair Trade and CED", November 1995.
Chocolate/cocoa resources
Collinson, Chris and Leon, Marcelo. Economic Viability of Ethical Cocoa Trading in Ecuador. Greenwich: Natural Resources and Ethical Trade Programme, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, 2000.
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International. Fairtrade Standards for Cocoa. Bonn, Germany: FLO. 2001
Grout, Phil. 2003. Harvest of Hope A beautiful book on the Kuapa Kokoo Fair Trade co-op, with 72 color photographs.
International Cocoa Organization
Toler, Deborah, Ph. D. & Schweisguth, Melissa A. J. D. Mark. (eds.) "While M&M's Smile, Child Cocoa Workers Cry." San Francisco: Global Exchange, October 2003.
New Internationalist. "Best of the Best." New Internationalist. August 1998.
Photos and stories from Nicaraguan Fair Trade cocoa farms
Labor, economic and social conditions in cocoa production
Chocolate Manufacturers Association of America. Global Chocolate Industry Plan to Combat Abusive Child Labor. Vienna, VA: CMA, 2001.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa: A Synthesis of Findings in Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. Croydon, UK: IITA, August 2002.
International Labor Organization. Combating Child Trafficking in West and Central Africa, World of Work. Geneva: ILO, 2001.
Raghavan, Sudarsan and Chatterjee, Sumana. "Nearly Hidden, Slavery on Ivory Coast Cocoa Farms is Easy to Miss." Knight Ridder News Service. June 25,2001.
US Department of State. Cote d'Ivoire, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Washington, DC: US Department of State. 2001.
Wood, Brian and Kate Blewett. Slavery, A Global Investigation. London, England: True Vision Productions, 2001. (Video )
Cocoa and the environment
Bright, Chris. Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back. World Watch Magazine. November 2001.
Coffee resources
Alvarez, Julia. A Cafecito Story. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001.
Carrol, John (ed.). Making Coffee Strong: Alternative Trading in a Conventional World. Canton, Massachusetts: Equal Exchange, 1994.
Colorado State University Fair Trade Research Group. One Cup at a Time: Poverty Alleviation and Fair Trade Coffee in Latin America. Colorado, 2003.
Clarke, R. J. and R. Macrae, (eds.) Coffee. London: Elsevier Applied Science, 1985.
Dicum, Gregory, and Nina Luttinger. The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop. New York: The New Press, 1999.
Hedlund, Hans G. B. Coffee Co-Operatives and Culture: An Anthropological Study of a Coffee Co-Operative in Kenya. Oxford University Press, 1993.
James, Deborah. Justice and Java: Coffee in a Fair Trade Market. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). October 2000.
Mace, Bill. Global Commodity Chains, Alternative Trade and Small-Scale Coffee Production in Oaxaca, Mexico. (PDF, 112KB) Miami University MA Thesis, Oxford, Ohio, 1998.
Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Renard, Marie-Christine. Los Intersticios del la Globalización: Un Label (Max Havelaar) para los Pequeños Productores de Café. CEMCA: Mexico City, Mexico, 1999.
Renard, Marie-Christine. The Interstices of Globalization: The Example of Fair Coffee. Soliologia Ruralis 39 (4): 484-500.
Roseberry, William, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach (eds). Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Schultz, Howard and Dori Jones Yang. Pour Your Heart Into It. How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. New York: Hyperion, 1997.
The Strength of the Indigenous People of Mut Vitz: Producing Fair Trade Organic Coffee in the Highlands of Chiapas. Mut Vitz Organic Coffee Cooperative and Chiapas Media Project, 2000. (video)
Ukers, William H. All About Coffee, 2nd ed. New York: The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935.
Waridel, Laure. Coffee With Pleasure: Just Java and World Trade. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001.
Watanabe, John M. Maya. Saints and Souls in a Changing World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Coffee and Labor
Barry, Tom. Roots of Rebellion. Boston: South End Press, 1987.
Bergquist, Charles W. Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Columbia. Stanford, CA, 1986.
Multatuli. Max Havelaar. New York: Penguin, 1860.
Menchú, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Introduced and Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Translated by Ann Wright. New York: Verso, 1984.
Ortiz, Sutti. Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages; Rural Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Paige, Jeffrey M. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Stolcke, Verena. Coffee Planters, Workers & Wives: Class Conflict and Gender Relations on Sao Paulo Plantations, 1850-1980. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
Coffee and environment
ActionAid UK. Robbing Coffee's Cradle - GM Coffee and its Threat to Poor Farmers. May 2001.
Bingham Hull, Jennifer. Can Coffee Drinkers Save the Rainforest? The Atlantic Monthly, September 1999.
Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth, Neusa. Organic Agriculture and Indigenous Communities in Chiapas: Mexico: An Alternative to Rural Development. University of California at Berkeley: MA Thesis, 1991.
Pennybacker, Mindy. "Habitat-saving Habit: Shaded Coffee Plantations Help Preserve Tropical Rainforests." Sierra. Vol 82 (2): 18 March-April 1997.
Perfecto, Ivette, Robert Rice, R Greenberg, and M. E. Van der Voort. Shade Coffee: A Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity. Bioscience 46(8) 598-608, 1996.
Rice, Paul and Jennifer MacLean. Sustainable Coffee at the Crossroads. Washington, DC: Consumers Choice Council, 1999.
Rice, R. A., A. M. Harris, and J. McLean (eds). Proceedings of the First Sustainable Coffee Congress. Washington DC: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, 1997.
Rice, Robert and Justin Ward. Coffee, Conservation, and Commerce in the Western Hemisphere: How Individuals and Institutions can Promote Ecologically Sound Farming and Forest Management in Northern Latin America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Council and Natural Resources Defense Council, June 1996.
Ryan, John C., and Alan Thein Durning. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1997. Includes a chapter on coffee that follows a bean from crop to the last drop.
Wilde, Chris. Clouds in the Coffee: Coffee Plantations as Bird Habitat. Earth Action Network. Vol 8 (5): Sept-Oct. 1997.
Wunderle, Joseph M. Jr. Avian Resource Use of Dominican Shade Coffee Plantations. Wilson Bulletin. Vol 110 (2), June 1998.
Coffee and political economy
Bates, Robert H. Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Coffee, Birds, and Trade Policy: Making the Connection. Seattle Audubon Society, October 1999.
Coote, Belinda. The Trade Trap: Poverty and the Global Commodity Markets. Oxford: Oxfam UK, 1996.
Huis in 't Veld, Mark. Coffee: A Speculator's Plaything. EFTA Fair Trade Yearbook 1997. European Fair Trade Association: January 1998.
Oxfam International. Bitter Coffee: How the Poor are Paying for the Slump in Coffee Prices (PDF 80kb) Oxfam policy paper, May 2001.
Sick, Deborah. Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Talbot, John M. 1997. "The Struggle for Control of a Commodity Chain: Instant Coffee from Latin America." Latin American Research Review. 32(2): 117-135.
Talbot, John M. 1997. "Where Does Your Coffee Dollar Go?: The Division of Income and Surplus Along the Coffee Commodity Chain." Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 32(1): 56-91.
Williams, Robert G. States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Coffee and Health
Garattini, Silvio. Caffeine, Coffee, and Health. New York: Raven Press, 1993.
National Coffee Association. Winter Drinking Survey. New York: National Coffee Association, 1999.
Tansey, Geoff and Tony Worsley. The Food System: A Guide. London: Earthscan Publications, Ltd., 1995.
Teaching resources
Global Exchange Educational Materials
Elementary School
Chocolate and Fair Trade
story about children and cocoa farms, from Global Gang (UK)
Children's poems on Fair Trade chocolate, from Global Gang (UK)
"Farming in African countries", from Global Gang (UK)
Divine Chocolate (UK) Educational materials on Fair Trade chocolate and Ghana
Fair Trade chocolate and Ghana Educational materials from the Dubble Chocolate Company (UK)
Child Labor and Education Free the Children/Kids Can Free the Children Campaigns focused on child labor, child poverty, war affected children, education, and children's rights. They offer a listserv, youth leadership training program and have a wonderful action guide for kids, "Take Action!"
Countries where cocoa is grown
Activities for kids from Catholic Relief Services Focuses on Africa, Latin America, Aouth East Asia, Eastern Europe, Pacific Islands. Features "fascinating facts," pages to color, word games/puzzles, interactive games, world recipes, and a newsroom.
Activities for teachers, "Countries and Issues in Africa", from Catholic Relief Services (Additional activities on Cambodia,Haiti, and Peru)
Cool Planet (UK), Resources for Teachers
General
Globe in a Box for Primary Kids (Social Justice Alphabet), from Oxfam Canada
Kids and Fair Trade: Maya Arts and Crafts of Guatemala
Junior High & High School
Child Labor and Education
Chil d Labor Coalition Students' Page
On-line discussion forum for students, listserv, resources, and more.
Child Labor Coalition
Member web pages and resources for parents and teachers
Free the Children/Kids Can Free the Children
Campaigns focused on child labor, child poverty, war affected children, education, and children's rights. They offer a listserv, youth leadership training program and have a wonderful action guide for kids, "Take Action!"
Free the Slaves
Action center, on-line glossary, news, and resource documents
Special "Campaigner" issue on Education, from Oxfam Canada
General Economics for All grade eight teachers'guide, from Oxfam Canada Other human rights and social justice materials available. NoteThe UK uses "key stages" for grade/age levels. Key Stage 1 covers grades K-2, Key Stage 2 covers grades 3-4, Key Stage 3 covers grades 5-6, Key Stage 4 covers grades 7-8, and Key Stage 5 covers grades 9-10.
Fair Trade Federation Resource List (UK)
International Cocoa Organization Q&A
