By Greg Valerio, The Fair trade Jeweller Well, after many years of work and many more years of dreaming, it was a privilege during December 2009 to be involved on behalf of the Alliance for Responsible Mining [ARM], an organisation that I helped to establish in 2005, to see Boards of ARM and The Fairtrade

Introduction: This is an ongoing recording of a series of dialogs between members of our Manufacturing Group, charged with the task of developing exceptional standards for jewelry manufacturing. Follow this link for full review of past discussions. The entire principles and standards document can be found here. In this portion, I introduce the Skill Transfer

by Greg Valerio Co-funded by Both Ends (Netherlands) and The CRED Foundation’s Fair Jewellery Action Programme (UK), The Golden Opportunity explores some of the historical relationships between large scale mining and small scale mining in public policy. Steve Tibbet, the author argues that the macro economic policy narrative that has been so vociferously implemented on