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, ...

You’ve probably come across the “Fair Trade Certified” logo while browsing the grocery store aisles — and if you’re like most shoppers, you probably aren’t quite sure what it means.U.S. consumers ...

Calafi is a freelance writer and author of the book “All Things Coffee” and an upcoming children’s book titled “Hazel and Her Sun.” She lives in Newport Beach. If you’re like most people in this ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Fair Trade coffee is emerging as a point of differentiation for food retailers here, led by Albertsons and Wild Oats' Sun Harvest Farms. Coffee manufacturers, traders and producers ...

;Fair trade is an international movement that directly supports improvements for farmers living in developing countries. Through environmental sustainability work, fair pricing and direct trade, many ...

CHICAGO -- Teresa Connors is a socially conscious consumer. She is a vegetarian who seeks out organic produce. She buys fair-trade certified coffee and chocolate, feeling good that the workers who ...

Workers at a tomato farm in Nogales, Ariz., got a check this month for more than $30,000. And they expect more money to come. The approximately 130 workers of Wholesum Harvest are still deciding how ...

For some shoppers, when they buy their coffee, a bottle of honey and or that Mexican woodcarving, a "fair trade" label on it is just as important as the taste or the look or the cost. Yet even as ...

A new study reported by Fair Trade USA and conducted by researchers from MIT, Harvard and LSE shows that the prominent appearance of the "Fair Trade Certified" label on coffee packaging can ...

A Fair Trade organisation in the US has cautiously welcomed amends to an ethical labelling scheme operated by another group. Initially, Fair World Project (FWP), a campaign of the Organic Consumers ...