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 ...

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 ...

In the face of climate change, our greatest challenge, buying Fair Trade products is one small way we can make a big impact. Fair Trade farms receive training in and support standards that fight ...

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 this partnership, more than $2 million has been directed to providing NatureSweet workers with livable wages, literacy and education opportunities, and funds for community development projects.

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

All's fair in love and coffee. At least, it's starting to look that way in supermarkets. Increasingly, retailers are carrying Fair Trade-certified products, chiefly coffee. Many of these retailers ...

When Clay Sharkey and Eric Poppler – co-owners of Mankato-based Beans Coffee Company – began selling their roasted organic coffee beans at the Mankato Farmers Market in 2013 – they were surprised to ...

Feel good about spending money by shopping, or even volunteering, at the Olive Branch, a nonprofit store in Pine that sells fair-trade products to support underserved and developing communities.

Using a combination of social psychology and economic models, a new UK study shows fair trade product sales increased in popularity during an economic downturn while organic product sales dropped, ...

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