Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands - often paying the ultimate price
Is buying fair trade a waste of money?
With the recession threatening the UK's fair trade market, Lucy Siegle asks whether it is really doing anybody any good
Is it a dictatorial tool of the rich and powerful? Does it
destroy jobs? Does it ignore the concerns of health, the environment and
development?
Emphatically no
. Criticisms of the WTO are
often based on fundamental misunderstandings of the way the WTO
works.