This report makes an attempt to capture all relevant information on the European market for fair and sustainable flowers and plants - ranging from economic structure of this market to production characteristics, and major trends in consumer preferences and behaviour. Above all, the report aims to provide insight into the role of the various social and environmental standards in the main European flower and plant markets and sales channels.
This report explores the market for gold and gold jewellery in the EU and more specifically in Belgium. As sustainable gold is a relatively new concept, and is still small-scale business compared to the overall gold industry, clear-cut information on the demand-side is still very limited. Therefore this report focuses on the total gold jewellery market, but also pays attention to the Fair Trade market when possible.
The organisation "Consumers International" (CI) has made an inquiry, in collaboration with 8 national consumer organisations (among who the Belgian Test- Aankoop), into the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy of European supermarkets, and into the work conditions and 'fair' relations they maintain with the developing countries concerning their production chain. This report has shown that a lot of supermarkets guarantee human work conditions for all producers in the production chain, whereas they did not took any proper measures with regard to the monitoring and training of the suppliers.
This report of the Trade for Development Centre wants to provide relevant information for producers and producer groups - within the trade context. This report makes an attempt to capture all relevant information on the international coffee market – ranging from the worldwide economic structure of this market to characteristics and related prices for different types of coffee, certification and labelling information, ...
This market analysis describes and explains the EU market for sports balls. Furthermore, the Belgian sports balls market is extensively analysed as well as nine other promising EU markets (Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and Poland). This market analysis aims to support producers from developing countries in understanding and improving their position on the EU market.
