This website has not been updated since the end of 2008.
The Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy gave birth to the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and Solidarity Economy that maintains the content and spirit of the former.
The dynamics has been going on on the website http://aloe.socioeco.org... Come and visit us!

 
Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy





   
pronto disponible

  September 03, 2010
Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption

news
4th National Fair Trade Forum
Paris (France)
April 25-26, 2008

Second Latin American Meeting of Fair Trade and Solidarity-based Economy
La Havana, Cuba
February 20-23, 2007

Call for papers
Fair Trade and Sustainable Development

Montreal, Quebec
June 19-21, 2006

more news
documents
more documents
books
Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet
By Julie Matthaei, Jenna Allard & Carl Davidson
April, 2008


Asian Forum for Solidarity Economy
Manila (Philippines)
October 17-20, 2007


>Fair Trade in Africa
  • For an African Voice in International Trade
    supporting networks / réseaux
    ,
    13 January 2006
    Communication of the preparatory meeting (January 2005) of the African Fair Trade Symposium (spring 2006), signed by the representatives of 12 African networks.
  • Forum Rethinking Fair Trade in Africa''
    PSSE / WSSE (GRAPAD)
    ,
    29 March 2005
    Launch text for the electronic forum on the theme "Rethinking Fair Trade in Africa". (Text available in English and French only.)
>General Documents
  • Looking for a South-South Fair Trade: What opportunities?
    Ana Isabel Otero (UQAM)
    ,
    9 March 2007
    This article seeks to underline the main ideas of the three workshops on South-South Fair Trade at the 2007 World Social Forum (Nairobi, January 2007), as a complement to the North-South system implemented in the 80s.
  • Fair Trade and the Role of Traidcraft
    Michael Gidney (Traidcraft)
    ,
    5 February 2006
    A presentation of fair trade principles and the role of Traidcraft, the UK's leading fair trade organisation.
  • Fair Trade in Asia - the developmental role of Oxfam
    Anand Kishore Das (Oxfam GB)
    ,
    1 June 2004
    Oxfam, an international development, humanitarian and campaigning organization that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering, has been at the forefront of making trade work for the poor, and has pioneered a fair trade movement to demonstrate this model of trade is fair both to the producers and consumers. This paper, presented at the Asian SME Forum in Hainan, China, in June 2004, has attempted to illustrate some of Oxfam's efforts in the area of fair trade, with a special focus on Asia.
  • Fair Trade
    Pierre W. Johnson
    ,
    1 October 2002
    This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work accomplished by the Fair Trade Workshop
>WSF III
  • Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement
    Pierre Johnson
    ,
    30 January 2003
    Summary of the round table and workshops on Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement during the 2003 World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • WSF III. Fair trade and local solidarity exchanges
    Juan José Sánchez (Bienaventurados los Pobres (Be. Pe), Argentina)
    ,
    24 January 2003
    Presentation at the International Seminar on Solidarity Economy.ETHICAL CONSUMPTION , COOPERATIVISM AND FAIR TRADE. Towards a sustainable and solidarity development, during the World Social Forum Mondial 2003
    - Porto Alegre, 24-27 of January 2003.
    Workshop:FAIR TRADE AT THE SERVICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . SUCCESS and FAILURES FACTORS
>WSF V
  • OECONOMIA HUMANA March 2005
    Chaire de développement durable et de responsabilité sociale de l'UQAM
    ,
    1 March 2005
    OECONOMIA HUMANA March 2005 bulletin issued by the Chair for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development at UQAM (Quebec University at Montreal). (Text available in French only, also at http://www.crsdd.uqam.ca/pdf/pdfBulletinsOH/OeconomiaHumanaMars05.pdf)
  • Social responsibility and solidarity-based fair trade: complementary practices
    Vincent Commenne
    ,
    27 January 2005
    The main points addressed in the presentation given at the World Social Forum 2005 by Vincent Commenne, coordinator of the SRSEA Workshop, part of the Alliance 21 WSSE: "Social responsibility and solidarity-based fair trade: complementary practices". (Text available in French only.)
>WSSE Seminar, Dakar 2005
  • Presentation of the Fair Trade Workshop Activities
    Arturo Palma Torres (Fédération Artisans du Monde)
    ,
    19 November 2005
    Presentation given at the Toubab Dialaw meeting, 19 November 2005, by Arturo Palma Torres from the Fair Trade Workshop.
  • Fair Trade and Solidarity Economy : the challenges ahead
    Véronique Bisaillon, Corinne Gendron et Marie-France Turcotte (UQAM - Québec)
    ,
    1 October 2005
    Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov. 19-21, 2005): summary report of the Fair Trade Workshop's activities.
> Other documents

Fatal error: Call to undefined function pg_connect() in /home/web/socioeco.org/ftp/fairtrade/connect.inc on line 4