alternative trading organizationsの例文

• SERRV International, started by the Church of the Brethran, was one of the first fair and alternative trade organizations in the world.
• Alternative trading organizations are often, but not always, based in political and religious groups, though their secular purpose precludes sectarian identification and evangelical activity.
• Coffee quickly became the main growth engine behind fair trade : between 25 and 50 % of the total alternative trading organization turnover in 2005 came from coffee sales.
• According to EFTA, the defining characteristic of alternative trading organizations is that of equal partnership and respect  partnership between the developing region producers and importers, shops, labelling organizations, and consumers.
• Alternative trading organizations have Fair Trade at the core of their mission and activities, using it as a development tool to support disadvantaged producers and to reduce poverty, and combine their marketing with awareness-raising and campaigning.
• In the subsequent years, fair trade agricultural commodities played an important role in the growth of many ATOs : successful on the market, they offered a renewable source of income for producers and provided Alternative Trading Organizations the perfect substitute to the stagnating handicrafts market.
• The year 1965 saw the creation of the first Alternative Trading Organization ( ATO ) : that year, British NGO Oxfam launched " Helping-by-Selling ", a program which sold imported handicrafts in Oxfam stores in the UK and from mail-order catalogues.
• In the subsequent years, fair trade agricultural commodities played an important role in the growth of many ATOs : successful on the market, they offered a much-needed, renewable source of income for producers and provided Alternative Trading Organizations a complement to the handicrafts market.
• Fair trade principles have deep roots in European societies long before the first structured alternative trading organizations ( ATOs ) emerged following World War II . Many of the fundamental concepts behind fair trade actually show a great resemblance with pre-capitalist ideas about the organization of the economy and society.
• Examples of such organisations are Ten Thousand Villages, Greenheart Shop, Equal Exchange and SERRV International in the US and Equal Exchange Trading, Traidcraft, Oxfam Trading, Twin Trading and Alter Eco in Europe as well as Siem Fair Trade Fashion in Australia . ( See the Alternative Trading Organization page for further examples .)
• An alternative trading organization ( ATO ) is usually a non-governmental organization ( NGO ) or mission-driven business aligned with the Fair Trade movement, aiming " to contribute to the alleviation of poverty in developing regions of the world by establishing a system of trade that allows marginalized producers in developing regions to gain access to developed markets ".