How selling goods under the Fair Trade label has improved the lives of people who produce goods, such as coffee, tea, chocolate, rice, flowers and more

by Amie Brooke Nelson

Fair Trade: Helping Mothers Around the World When Joan Shifrin became a mother, she found herself thinking more about other caretakers globally and how all want the same basic things for their children: education, safet...read more

by Steve Lussing

The conventional supply chain model benefits large corporations who have routinely exploited the poor in underdeveloped countries by catering to their companies' bottom line, which is to share profit among their shareholde...read more

by Chief K.Masimba Biriwasha

Imagine an elderly man toiling under the hot sun to weed a crop of cotton in a remote African village. When the crop is harvested, a middleman appears in the name of free market trade and purchases it at a ridiculously low...read more

by Edmund K

Mother's day has just recently passed on the eleventh of May, and many families celebrated this day with flowers, chocolates and good cheer to the one person that loves us most. However, many of us think little of how the...read more

by Michelle Wilkinson

The issue of fair trade has evolved in reaction to the perceived and real inequalities perpetuated by free trade between the developed world and developing countries. A commitment to trading goods and services without prot...read more

by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

The Fair Trade Label has improved the lives of people by circumventing the traditional routes of trade. In the era of an indirect free market, the consumers would buy from the market and pay the price of the market, the in...read more

by Bob Ewing

Fair Trade is a trading partnership: a partnership that uses dialogue, transparency and respect, to foster greater equity in international trade. Fair Trade contributes to sustainable development by offering better tra...read more

by Kenneth Kadiri Kolo

One of today's common sight in the United Kingdom and indeed in much of Europe, nay, the rest of the developed world, is the fruit and vegetables section, stocked fresh all year round. Shoppers are often caught in awe to ...read more

by Sharon Cullars

Before Fair Trade was implemented sixty years ago, an average farmer in Ecuador could expect to receive only a few cents per pound for his crops, barely enough to sustain himself, his family and his farm. Middle distribut...read more