In an age when it is easy to withdraw from society, it is more important than ever to fight to preserve the dignity of our ...

Counterpoint to “The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee” article, published in the Summer 2011 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review Fair Trade USA is disappointed that the Stanford Social ...

Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world affluence with third world resource. For the average consumer, ...

Fair Trade bananas, marketed by Oke USA, can now be found in about 70 locations around New England, including in co-op supermarkets, natural food stores, and college campuses. If you're sold on the ...

The Fairtrade label is increasingly common. But while shoppers seem keen to pay a little over the odds for fair trade products, some observers question how effective it really is in helping developing ...

At a 2007 craft fair in Seattle, I found a vendor selling olive oil from the Holy Land that he called “fair trade” Peace Oil. I asked why the label on his bottles carried no service mark certifying ...

If you’ve seen Coldplay perform, you may have noticed the words “Make Trade Fair” scrawled on singer Chris Martin’s piano. Two years ago, the band was approached by OxFam, a British humanitarian ...