"A great strength of this book is the breadth of the original surveys of everyone from producers to business owners to activists and institutional players. I don't know of any other work with such a broad assemblage of empirical pieces."
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Matt Warning, University of Puget Sound
"In Fair Trade from the Ground Up April Linton brings together all the ingredients that have made Fair Trade what it is today. Everyone who cares about a more just world-trade system, or simply a better deal for the people who work to make the treats that we all enjoy every day, should read this book and help us to make Fair Trade the norm in the USA."
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Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director, Divine Chocolate Ltd.
"Linton pulls back the curtain on the Fair Trade movement, and offers a compelling look at the nuances that make up the Fair Trade effort, integrating individual stories with well-researched analysis that is both astute and fair minded."
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Paul Rice, President and CEO, Fair Trade USA
"This book makes some important, fresh contributions to assessing the impacts of Fair Trade for producers, and to learning from advocacy efforts. While academics have done lots of case studies about Fair Trade, very few have begun synthesizing the results of the scattered evidence and methodologies the way April Linton does."
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Jeff Goldman, Executive Director, Fair Trade Resource Network