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A new publication on Fair Prices by Ruud Bronkhorst has been published as a chapter of the book 'Climate-smart production of coffee - Improving social and environmental sustainability', edited by Professor Reinhold Muschler, CATIE, Cost Rica: Fair-trade coffee: how fair is fair?

The book has been published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in the in Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

The publication in now available at this website with permission of the Burleigh Dodds. Download here.

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Presentation by Ruud Bronkhorst on 'The Economics of Human Rights, Using the Living Income / Fair price Approach to Combat Poverty' at a Fair Price/Living Income webinar (September 2021)

The webinar on 'Achieving Fair Prices and Living incomes in Global value Chains through Public Policies in Europe' was organised by the Fair Trade Advocacy Office in Brussels in cooperation with the Sustainable Food Lab, GIZ, and with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Ruud Bronkhorst started with the statement “No Fair Prices, no Living Wages”. Then he explained why fair prices are essential, by referring to a) the Universal of Human Rights and b) to the global problem of climate change. Within the first it was referred to Article 23 and 25 of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights, in particular.

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Why the European Union should include Fair Prices in its policies (2021) by Ruud Bronkhorst

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The Economics of Human Rights - Using the Living Income/Fair Price Approach to Combat Poverty (2020) by Ruud Bronkhorst