July 5, 2008
Saturday

Fair Trade : Audio

Fair Trade is trade that satisfies criteria re. the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers and other social and environmental considerations. It's part of an organized social movement which promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in commerce between developed and undeveloped countries.
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CWR: Ending Child Labor on West African Cocoa Farms (audio)

Organization:
Corporate Watchdog Radio
CWR co-host Bill Baue speaks with Mil Niepold, senior policy advisor at Verité, a supply chain monitoring and auditing nonprofit that serves as secretariat of the International Cocoa Verification Board, and Bama Athreya, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum.

Cocoa Made Sweet Without Child Labor (audio)

Organization:
American Public Media: Marketplace
West Africa supplies much of the cocoa used by the major chocolate companies, and the region is also known for using child labor. Gretchen Wilson reports measures the U.S. and chocolate industry are taking to free child cocoa workers.

Promoting Sustainability in the Coffee Industry (audio)

Organization:
Stanford Graduate School of Business
In this opening keynote of the Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Conference, Willard (Dub) Hay explores what's making Starbucks new Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices successful.

CWR: Oxfam Slams Starbucks (audio)

Organization:
Corporate Watchdog Radio
December 5, 2006 - Seth Petchers, Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair campaign coffee leader, discusses how Starbucks opposes Ethiopia's bid to trademark its renowned regional coffee names--Sidamo, Harrar, and Yirgacheffe.
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