Critical Thinking about Fair Trade Nations: Evaluating Fair Trade’s contribution to economic development
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As a logical extension, the group – made up of representatives from Fair Do’s, a local dedicated Fair Trade shop, Tearfund, Oxfam Cymru, CAFOD, Christian Aid and the Co-op Group – developed the idea of pushing Fair Trade networks across Wales to undertaken practices that would allow for the country as a whole to claim the status of the world’s first Fair Trade Nation. Wales was soon joined by communities in Scotland who set the same objective even as part of their International Development Policy. As a result of much hard work, Wales was declared as having been achieved on the 6 th June 2008 – and Scotland followed suit in March 2013.
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