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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

From left to right: Brazilian Cacao farmers Edinilson, Edivaldo, Luís Carlos, and Manuel harvest pods to make Joaihú chocolate in the Atlantic Coastal Preserve in Bahia, Brazil. As the global supply ...

Elizabeth Killough remembers the beginning of Media’s Fair Trade history as follows: She was sitting at her desk at UnTours, an unconventional Media-based travel company, next to her boss and UnTours’ ...

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 ...