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  • May 27, 2014
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Fairtrade another slave trade on African soil study finds.

A recent unprecedented study finds that landless, women and those with limited education do not benefit from and are “outside the dynamics of Fair Trade labelling”. The use of child labour in the production of the so labelled ethical produce widely sold in the UK were evidently found .

Fair Trade has not been an effective mechanism for improving the lives of wage workers, the poorest rural people. “Many Fair Trade organisations, establish a minimum price for producers but do not deal with the conditions of workers that the producers may employ.” Noting also hat Fair Trade is just one of the Institutional forms of the broader phenomenon of agricultural exports known to have too little knowledge of the labour market.

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  • May 21, 2014
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Ghana squad – Worldcup 2014.

How they qualified
Ghana survived one of the continent’s toughest qualifying groups by winning five of their six matches against 2012 African champions Zambia, Lesotho and Sudan. A 1-0 defeat in Zambia was their only set-back in a campaign that saw them outscore their opponents by 15 goals to three. That sent them into the final play-off round, where again the Black Stars were done no favours by the draw, which set them up against seven-time African champions Egypt. However, a resounding 6-1 win the home first leg basically settled the tie and sent them into their third FIFA World Cup in succession even before a meaningless 2-1 defeat in Cairo.

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