Louise Herring talking about Comic Relief and its role as grant maker and fundraiser, a charity and a business.
How do you measure the impact of supporting fair trade producers? It’s a qualitative & quantitative process but how do we get everyone’s views?
We could build relationships with producers directly but you need to fully understand the [...]

TWIN is a membership organisation that has been running for 25 years. Focused on Latin America and Africa, TWIN’s work started around bartering; e.g. swapping cigars from Cuba for coffee in Africa.
TWIN only works with small holder farms, building democratic systems. They believe in a better equitable distribution of risks and rewards; a different kind [...]

Fair Trade 2.0 conversation starts with a focus on RFID tagging and data:

- On the consumer end you run the risk that through electronic tagging consumption habits ever more closely monitored
- people talk about the internet of things - the moment something is produced it is RFID tagged. The question is whose data is it? [...]