Manifesto of the Poor shows how Fairtrade has evolved practical and tested solutions to alleviate poverty.

Written by the co-founder of Fairtrade, Francisco Van der Hoff Boersma, read the inside story of how the campesino movement started, and see how they organised democratically run cooperatives and cut out the middleman. Today, as a result, a wide variety of Fairtrade products are sold directly to home and export markets worldwide at a fair price for both consumers and producers.

Fairtrade makes perfect sense in an imperfect world. It transforms buying goods into an ethical and pleasurable
experience. Fairtrade gives power back to the people, enabling us to develop a more ecologically balanced
and less exploitative world.

“In the midst of an economic crisis Father Frans van der Hoff asks us to occupy the market with solidarity and justice and create economies that work for people, not corporations. Creating living economies as part of Earth Democracy is not just possible; it has become necessary for peace justice and sustainability.”
Vandana Shiva, Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, Ecofeminist, and author of several books including, Earth Democracy

“Weaving thirty years experience of working amongst the campesinos of Mexico with deep insights into the structural violence systemic in liberalism and globalisation, Father Fran’s inspiring and thought-provoking Manifesto offers us a practical and essential solution to the inherent inhumanity of capitalism: the solidarity economy, where people and Earth – and not the corporation – have the allegiance of those they feed.”
Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto

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Book Details

Published: February 2014

ISBN: 978 1 85623 170 1

Size: 198mm x 121mm

Format: Paperback

Author

Better known in Latin America as 'Francisco', comparisons to Gandhi do not seem far-fetched. Like Gandhi, Frans is a master strategist working on behalf of the dispossessed. He makes perfect sense in an imperfect world. One of 15 children born into a poor farming family in Holland, Francisco Van der Hoff Boersma became a master strategist working on behalf of the dispossessed. After obtaining doctorates in theology and political economy, he went on to teach at the University of Ottawa. He still considers the University as an oasis for rest and support, but teaching was not for him – he wanted something more hands on.

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