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NAFTA + US Farm Subsidies Devastates Mexican Agriculture, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KRd7Qjyys
Time 8:23
Tim Wise explores how corn exported to Mexico at 19% below cost of production affects Mexican workers.
Small Mexico Farmers Struggle Post-NAFTA, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz_XHabnqQ0
Time 4:31
John Holman reports from Mexico City where the impact NAFTA has had on agriculture has been wide-ranging and not always positive.
CBC Documentary, Big Sugar, 2012
Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHh5odELpi4
Part II:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlAqt1UiQP4
Time 44:29 each
Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. Using dramatic reenactments, it reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the eighteenth century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. Going undercover, Big Sugar witnesses the appalling working conditions on plantations in the Dominican Republic, where Haitian cane cutters live like slaves. Workers who live on Central Romano, a Fanjul-owned plantation, go hungry while working 12-hour days to earn $2 (US).
Fair Trade: A Just World Starts with You, Benjamin Conard, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6TQSxlDOY
Time 9:12
Two billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day. But how can we fight global poverty? Through fair trade! Benjamin Conard is a junior Business Administration major and German minor at SUNY Geneseo. He is the founder and president of the Fair Trade Club on campus, the Student Chair on the National Steering Committee for Fair Trade Colleges and Universities, and a Communications Intern for the World Fair Trade Organization.
From the slave trade to fair trade; being inspired by the past, Bruce Crowther, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JmtnhQaSCs
Time 10:01
Bruce Crowther talks about how he inspired by looking at the past to the slave trade as he works to promote the fair trade.
Free Trade Does Not Make Countries Richer, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtm1KUu2Yk
Time 3:28
In this interview with Rob Johnson of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Ha-Joon Chang, author of “23 Things they Don’t tell you about capitalism”, says that history shows that developing countries need protectionist trade policies to nurture young businesses, including the United States until World War II
How to Enrich a Country: Free Trade or Protectionism? 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ITyd1Pzek0
Time 8:05
What is the best way to make a country rich? Should you adopt a policy of free trade? Or is protectionism and economic nationalism the better way? This video explores the history and theory of one of the central questions of economics and politics.
A Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement – Africa, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsjJJSPvyCM
Time 44:44
This presentation and panel discussion from the 2019 World Economic Forum discusses the new African free trade agreement and it’s implications for development.