MANCHESTER — Manchester Christian Church is asking people this holiday season not only to think of who they are buying Christmas gifts for, but who they are buying gifts from. The local church will be ...
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 ...
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 ...
With rows filled with groceries and stores lined with promotions for their new sales, we often forget how the products we buy landed on our shelves. A large portion of the products we buy are at the ...
For more than a quarter of a century, Paul Rice, founder of Fair Trade USA, and Seth Goldman, co-founder of Honest Tea and CEO of Just Ice Tea, have championed ethical sourcing with a laser focus on ...
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, ...