ABSTRACT
Several types of initiatives are associated with the genesis of fair trade. In the 1950s and 1960s ‘charity trade’, involving the importing of handicrafts made by vulnerable groups (for example, refugees and orphans, among others) arose. The 1970s and 1980s saw the emergence of ‘alternative trade’ movements (which critiqued the dominant trade system and sought to establish alternative trading relations based upon solidarity) and ‘solidarity trade’ (which focused support specifically on governments and movements in the South that were promoting alternative forms of development, such as in Tanzania and Nicaragua) (Low and Davenport 2006).
