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In the market but not of it?: Fair trade coffee and forest stewardship council certification as market-based market reform

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2003

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This paper looks at two prominent, highly successful initiatives, Fair Trade coffee and FSC certification and labeling, and proposes a preliminary framework for assessing the use of market-based instruments to ameliorate the market's own negative social and environmental impacts.

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Trade policy, Markets, Marketing and trade, Fair trade coffee, Forest stewardship council, Market reform, Governance

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Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Montreal, Canada, 27-30 July 2003