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Download and read documents about all aspects of tropical fruit trade and production.
Bananas
- LIVING WAGE STUDY
- The Real Wage Situation of Male and Female Workers in Eleven Banana Plantations in Costa Rica, in Comparison to a 'Sustainable Living Wage, ASEPROLA for Banana Link and The Cooperative Group, November 2004.
- Second International Banana Conference
- The preparatory papers of the second International Banana Conference, 2005 including: The Environmental and Health Impacts of Banana Production in Latin America by Raul Harari, Corporation for the Development of Production and the Working Environment IFA The Working and Living Conditions of Banana Workers in Latin America by Raul Harari, Corporation for the Development of Production and the Working Environment IFA Women in the Windward Islands by Senator Josephine Dublin-Price, Association of Caribbean Farmers (WINFA) For the Respect of Labour and Social Rights of Women Banana Workers in Latin America by Iris Munguia Figueroa, COLSIBA
- World Banana Forum: getting down to business
- A blog written by Alistair Smith begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, International Coordinator for ProMusa, the banana and plantain section of Bioversity International, March 2012
- Second Conference of the World Banana Forum Report
- A report of the Second Conference of the World Banana Forum held in Guayaquil, Ecuador in February 2012 produced by STITCH.
Pineapples
- The Sour Taste of Pineapples
- How an Expanding Export Industry Undermines Workers and Their Communities ILRF, October 2008
- The story behind pineapple sold on our supermarkets shelves; a case study of Costa Rica, 2010
- Summary of report written by Banana Link on behalf of Consumers International
Women workers
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America
- Chiquita, Women Banana Workers and Structural Inequalities by Marina Prieto-Carron, 2006
Fruit Companies
- Dole, behind the smoke screen...
- An Investigation into Dole's Banana Plantations in Latin America 2006
- Dole…Behind the Smoke-screen…
- What is new since our report on the company’s plantations in Latin America in 2006?, 2009
- Are International Supply Chains increasing poverty?
- A Fair Trade Tool Kit, Traidcraft, 2005
- Chiquita response to International Women's Day Urgent Appeal
- A response from Chiquita to the Make Fruit Fair Urgent Appeal calling for an end to discriminatory practices on their owned and supplier plantations in Latin America.
Fair trade
- Unpeeling the Banana Trade
- A Fairtrade Foundation Briefing Paper about Fairtrade certified banans, 2009.
Supermarkets
- Checked out
- Are European supermarkets living up to their responsibilities for labour conditions in the developing world? Consumers International 2010
- When is a market not a market?
- The EU Retail Sector: When is a market not a market? The Agribusiness Accountability Initiative (AAI) European Supermarkets Group. Briefing for MEPs November 2007
- COLLATERAL DAMAGE
- How price wars between UK supermarkets helped to destroy livelihoods in the banana and pineapple supply chains.' Dr. Iain Farquhar begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Banana Link November 2006.
- Rethinking price
- Article by Alistair Smith begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Banana Link, 2009.
- Competition Law and the New Slavery
- The paper shows how Competition Law has ended up generating slave societies and needs urgent revision. Written by Dr Iain Farquhar begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting on behalf of Banana Link for the Make Fruit Fair consortium, October 2011
West Africa
- Decent work for African plantation workers
- Alistair Smith begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, international coordinator of UK NGO Banana Link reports on working conditions on tropical fruit plantations in West Africa
- Sustainable living wages and the impact of Fairtrade at Volta River Estates Limited (VREL) banana plantation, Ghana
- Rachel Smith, Banana Link, 2009
- Edited summary of West Africa mission report
- An edited summary of a report of the Banana Link/Peuples Solidaires coordinated mission to Cameroon and the Ivory Coast, September 2010
- A study on the pineapple industry in Ghana
- A study was undertaken by the Workers Right Consult and funded by Banana Link to establish the extent to which companies involved in the pineapple industry in Ghana respect workers’ rights. The research explores the working conditions for both local and migrant workers in this tropical fruit industry.
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