The big idea of Fair Trade is to challenge the purpose of business

Fair Trade has gone from strength to strength, but could it now provide a new sustainable model for doing business?
An economy that works for people and planet needs a new kind of business model. This cannot be today's dominant mode of profit maximisation, where too often the environment is left unprotected. Nor can...
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