* Retailing Fair Trade: Providing Consumers With What They Need and What They Don't (A, B, S)
The retailers' roundtable provides Fair Trade business owners and consumers an opportunity to discuss challenges facing the buying and selling of goods today. Attendees are invited to participate in an open discussion of solutions and to bring examples of best practices. The session closes with a creation of a Fair Trade retailer's network and support group to continue working on these and other issues.
* An Innovative Tool to Calculate “Fair Wage” (B, S)
As the fair trade crafts movement grows one of the key challenges for producers and buyers is finding a way to define a "fair wage in the local context.” Come participate in the sharing of a very useful Fair Trade crafts floor-pricing tool - a free internet tool to help provide country specific economic information and make Fair Trade craft pricing a more transparent process.
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| area rugs |