Fair Trade Certified: What Does It Mean? Fair trade is exactly what it sounds like: fair pay for work and goods, especially ...

You might not know it from its generally low price tag, but chocolate has a host of production issues, from child labor on cacao farms to issues with deforestation. Chocolate isn’t alone in this ...

“International trade is an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction, and contributes to the promotion of sustainable development,” reads paragraph 68 of the 2030 Agenda for ...

As I have met with fair trade factories and farms internationally, I have often heard, “When the certification auditors come, two-thirds of the workforce runs out the back door." This cheekily ...

Fair trade is a global movement that strives to provide standards for how products like food and clothing are grown, produced, and sold. These standards help ensure equitable trade by directly ...

With rows filled with groceries and stores lined with promotions for their new sales, we often forget how the products we buy landed on our shelves. A large portion of the products we buy are at the ...

Walking down the aisles of your local grocery store, you've likely noticed products labeled "fair trade" alongside other product options. These certified items, from coffee and chocolate to bananas ...

For more than a quarter of a century, Paul Rice, founder of Fair Trade USA, and Seth Goldman, co-founder of Honest Tea and CEO of Just Ice Tea, have championed ethical sourcing with a laser focus on ...