GLOSSARY
- add-value
- generate a return above and beyond raw product market price
- cooperative
- a managed organisation of any number of individual smallholders
- dependency
- people kept in the dark and so remain dependent on middlemen and multinationals
- developing countries
- countries that have been exploited for their raw products
- donation
- money you don’t expect to see again (except in better products and successful people)
- entrepreneurial
- take advantage of an opportunity no matter how small it may appear to be
- fair trade
- pay a fairer price for a product
- grower
- man or woman who grows produce as a means to making a living
- grower group
- a community of growers
- local
- operating in the local region or grower community
- poverty
- a hand to mouth existence with no opportunity for planning a way out of it
- premiums
- the additional payments made by companies that trade fairly
- self-determination
- using your own skills and resources to plan your own future
- smallholder
- someone with a hut and a parcel of land
- sustainable
- has a future