Patrick Shein is an authority on fair trade gold issues. He is the founding director of the Ethical Bullion Company and a member of the board of the Association of Responsible Mining. Here, he writes about scalability issues in other fair trade products, creating a context for his belief that small scale and

Earlier this year, this blog reported protests in the US at Lev Leviev’s store. Now, an article on Africa.com reports how, Lev Leviev, one of the kings of the diamond sector, fires 148 striking diamond polishers, represented by the Mine Workers Union of Namibia.

Notes On The Rapaport Fair Trade Conference: June 2, 2008 Introduction: I posted an earlier report on this conference by Deidra Woolard. Now, these are my observations on the Rapaport Conference that took place in June. Marc In what has now become an annual event, the Rapaport Fair Trade Conference took place at the JCK