Fair Trade USA, the country's largest fair trade certifier, recently decided to allow some coffee grown on big farms to earn the label. One reason, the group says, is to help the poor farmers that ...

Jump To Our Picks. What is Fair Trade Espresso? Why Does it Matter? Unfortunately, the coffee bean industry is known to be one of the largest sites of forced labor across the globe.

Start small by buying coffee with a fair trade label, which is typically located at one of the bottom corners on the bag’s front. Or, if you’re a specialty coffee drinker and are ready to nerd ...

Fair Trade Coffee is on sale at Starbucks October 24, 2001 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)-- Shares. Facebook ... from child labor on cacao farms to issues with deforestation.

This resilience isn’t limited to coffee. Dole’s Fair Trade organic banana plantations in Costa Rica, which supply Whole Foods and other retailers, have used their community-development ...

Fair trade, direct trade or organic Some labels will say whether the coffee is fair trade, a general certification that indicates the importer or roaster pays a premium above base commodity prices.

Ethical consumption through a field experiment on Fair Trade coffee purchases in German supermarkets showed that a 20% price cut, rather than an appeal to morals, significantly increased Fair ...

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 ...