Fair Trade can be confusing, misunderstood, and even mistaken for a marketing ploy. From its origins in the 1950's to its significance today with the rise of the conscious consumer, I ask industry ...

Fair trade advocates focus on the wages and working conditions of labor in developing markets. For example, a fair trade activist will fight to increase the wage rates of workers and improve their ...

Outside of these bigger organizational bodies, individual companies also offer their own versions of fair trade. For example, Starbucks’s CAFE Practices, developed with Conservation ...

'Fair Trade' Markets Growing Quickly Companies which observe "fair trade" practices buy raw materials from suppliers that meet certain environmental and ... I'll give you an example with coffee.

Fair trade proponents also argue that they develop commercial infrastructure and trade credit systems in countries where they are largely ... for example, Sainsbury's marketing of fair trade bananas.

Obviously no one wants to see U.K. supermarkets profiteering from Fair Trade sales ("Consumers Are Paying A Premium to Embrace 'Fair Trade' Campaign," page one, June 8). However we believe the ...

In the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas, for example, where fertile soils grow an estimated 60 percent of Mexico’s total coffee output, the coffee business benefits the Mayan community, but in ...

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 ...

Indeed, many of these successful examples are testimony to ‘gold standard’ fair trade organisations (such as Divine Chocolate, Café Direct and Just Trading Scotland), often members of the ...