Jizay and I have had a long thread which has the title regarding Fair Trade Coffee in Philly; however, we got off that subject and on to Fair Trade (coffee) in general. Below are some of the reports we found:

FAIR TRADE COFFEE ENTHUSIASTS SHOULD
CONFRONT REALITY
Jeremy Weber
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj27n1/cj27n1-9.pdf

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair
Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce
Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern
Nicaragua?
CHRISTOPHER BACON *
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
http://www.ecodes.org/pages/especial...docs/bacon.pdf

WPS4011
"Fairtrade" and Market Failures in Agricultural Commodity Markets
Loraine Ronchi
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/externa...EX/wps4011.txt

‘Fair’ coffee workers paid below minimum wage
By Hal Weitzman in Lima
Published: September 8 2006 22:01 | Last updated: September 8 2006 22:01
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/46cd2578-3f5...0779e2340.html

I should point out that all of these articles are cited in the Weber report to the CATO.