Fair Trade label aims to promote ethical coffee consumption. Do its skeptics have a case? While ‘experts’ may debate over the long-term benefits and effectiveness of Fair Trade, a couple of ...

A major certifier of fair trade foods says it wants to buy and certify coffee from big farms. But others in fair trade say that goes against the industry's priority of helping small farmers.

Fair trade consumables have really increased over the last decade. Most people would learn of fair trade through coffee, tea or chocolate and while those products are still very much part of the ...

In honor of International Coffee Day, October 1, 2022, Fair Trade USA™ highlights its coffee partners' commitments to the Sustainable Coffee Challenge (SCC).

The history of the fair trade coffee movement can be traced back to the 80s, when a glut of coffee beans on the global market caused the price to tumble.

Direct trade is a different approach from fair trade coffee, in which local growers pool their beans together so that beans, regardless of quality, are sold at a minimum set price.

Fair Trade coffee and chocolate have become commonplace. Get ready for Fair Trade fashion. Two years after the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory called Rana Plaza killed more than 1,100 and ...