Archive

• 2019
  • August (3)
    • Rock Your Values
    • The Problem With Fast Fashion
    • A First-Hand Look at Fairtrade Bananas in Colombia
  • July (6)
    • Can I manifest Fairtrade Organic bananas in my neighborhood in DC?
    • Fairtrade is far from finished.
    • Serve Up Fairtrade Goodness This Summer
    • Decent work and a decent income. It’s not much to ask, is it?
    • Celebrate World Chocolate Day!
    • There’s only one way out of the global coffee crisis. Pay more.
  • June (7)
    • FAIRTRADE WELCOMES NEW COCOA FLOOR PRICE IN COTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANA AS BENEFIT FOR FARMERS
    • Fairtrade and Colombian President meet to tackle coffee crisis
    • 48 hours debunking the myth that fair trade coffee isn’t high quality
    • One hundred years on – will we finally bring an end to child labor?
    • Camp with Dad this Father’s Day
    • We love coffee. Are we willing to pay the price?
    • Worried about wildlife? Sustainable agriculture could be the answer.
  • May (6)
    • Working Together for Better Wages in Ghana
    • Isabella Pacheco on Coffee Sourcing
    • Reduce your business’s carbon footprint by asking these two questions
    • Three Questions for Three Brands this World Fair Trade Day
    • New app to reduce the use of highly toxic pesticides is now LIVE!
    • Flower workers in Tanzania take first steps toward better wages
  • April (6)
    • Cotton Farming Empowers Women in India
    • Dear fashion brands, what are you waiting for?
    • How to Dress Head-To-Toe with Fairtrade Cotton & Why It Matters
    • Fairtrade revises flagship standard
    • Banana Producers Thrive in Colombia
    • 5 Fairtrade Essentials to Make This Easter Eggs-tra Special
  • March (2)
    • Fairtrade Double Chocolate Madeleines Recipe
    • 7 Facts You Didn't Know About Avocados
  • January (1)
    • Ethical Valentine's Day Gifts
• 2018
  • December (4)
    • Start the new year off right - wear fair!
    • Gifts that Give Back
    • A World of Cooperatives
    • Cocoa farmers to earn more with higher Minimum Price
  • November (2)
    • The Ultimate Fairtrade Friendsgiving Menu
    • Recipe: Fairtrade Chocolate Truffles
  • October (4)
    • Fairtrade Tops $9 Billion in Global Sales for First Time on 8% Growth
    • Scare Up Some Fairness This Halloween
    • What Price, Bananas? New Report Reveals the Hidden Damage in Bunches
    • The Evolution and Revolution of Fairtrade at Coliman
  • September (2)
    • Drip, drip, Drop: Tumbling coffee price puts farmers in peril
    • Good for you, good for farmers: Introducing the World’s First Fairtrade Supplements
  • August (3)
    • Fairtrade Figures, What Can Data tell Us?
    • Fairtrade Coffee Cabinet Recipe with Ethical Bean Coffee
    • Back to School the Fairtrade Way
  • July (2)
    • Imagine an End to Human Trafficking
    • Is Poverty the Main Ingredient in Your Chocolate?
  • June (1)
    • From Child Labor to the Future of Food: The Voices of Young People Change Agriculture for the Better
  • May (3)
    • Fairtrade Gifts for Dad
    • #Stand4Fairness: Go Beyond the Seal with Equal Exchange
    • #Stand4Fairness with Endangered Species Chocolate
  • April (5)
    • #Stand4Fairness with Ethical Bean
    • Kick Off Your Sustainable Fashion Journey with Fairtrade Cotton
    • Why I’m Standing in Solidarity with Fashion Revolution to Ask Brands #WhoMadeMyClothes
    • #Stand4Fairness with Divine Chocolate
    • 4 Ways to #Stand4Fairness
  • March (4)
    • Sustainable Products Inside and Out: Holistic Thinking for Better Futures
    • Your Easter Chocolate Capable of More than Smiles
    • Bananageddon Cometh
    • Six Ways Fairtrade is Pressing for Progress on Gender Equality
  • February (3)
    • Release: Majority of Americans Trust FAIRTRADE Label
    • Bittersweet Chocolate
    • Ethical Valentine's Day Gifts
  • January (3)
    • 7 Non-Profits We Think are Rad
    • Top 10 Blog Posts of 2017
    • Release: 1% for the Planet Recognizes Fairtrade’s Strong Environmental Credentials
• 2017
  • December (3)
    • 6 Christmas Movies to Explain Fairtrade to Friends & Family
    • 5 Minutes for Fair Trade Fashion
    • Make Your Holidays Fairtrade
  • November (5)
    • Shopping Aisle Conundrum? A Guide to Certification Labels
    • Shopping Sustainable? Best make LOFT-y Choices
    • Fiji sugar farmers adapt to survive
    • A Day in the life of a Fair Trade Mom: Newborn Edition
    • Fairtrade Impact: How do we measure up?
  • October (6)
    • A Fairtrade Favorite Bake Sale
    • Fall into a Fair Trade Baking Adventure
    • Fair Trade is the pathway to Regenerative Agriculture
    • 5 Things I Learned Making Cookies in a Jar
    • Celebrating Day of the Girl Child
    • Take your baking to the next level
  • September (8)
    • A Visit to Papua New Guinea for Coffee Day
    • 10 Steps to Host a Fair Trade Bake Sale – in GIFs
    • 7 things you didn't know were Fairtrade & Organic
    • Release: Often a Loss Leader, Bananas Show Potential as Impact Driver for Retailers, New GlobeScan Research Finds
    • Setting our sights on the future
    • Ten Tantalizing Chocolate Facts
    • Unpacking the Avocado Industry
    • Release: Fairtrade Part of Balanced Diet New Research Shows
  • August (2)
    • That Fairtrade Terroir: New Wines Hit US Market
    • Don’t Be a Couch Potato! This Fall, Flex Your Activist Muscles
  • July (3)
    • Vanilla farmers in Madagascar leading against child labor
    • Bringing the Sustainable Development Goals Down A Level
    • Celebrating 20 Years of Fairtrade International
  • June (4)
    • 10 Fairtrade Sugar Facts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
    • Taking Steps Towards Change
    • Release: Make My Coffee Profitable, Future of Coffee Depends on Adequate Income
    • Fairtrade America's Summer Reading List
  • May (7)
    • ‘B’ is for Benefit, Businesses doing Better
    • How to Be a Climate Activist According to Bananas
    • Release: Fairtrade America Partners with Barnraiser to Push Better Food
    • Common Business Questions
    • Leveling the ground for women in Kenya’s flower industry
    • Picnic Pizza? Celebrate Fairtrade Any Way You Want!
    • Release: Your Global Farmers’ Market, Farmers & Workers Report on Fairtrade’s Benefits
  • April (4)
    • Release: Fairtrade cotton better for the environment and communities, new research shows
    • Continuing the Conversation: An Interview Nazma Akter
    • Getting Digi with IT
    • Are Your Small Batch Coffee Beans Special?
  • March (6)
    • Finding Justice for Farmworkers, Telling their Story
    • 10 Fairtrade Coffee Facts to Kick off the Morning
    • Fairtrade Farmers Spur Nationwide Changes on Child Labor in Belize
    • This Month, March to your store! Ask for Fairtrade Bananas!
    • Release: Fran’s Chocolates Receives Prestigious Good Food & SOFI Awards
    • Ok, Ladies, Now Let’s Talk Caffeination!
  • February (3)
    • A Letter from Pam - Connecting with Fairtrade Supporters Online
    • Release: Fairtrade, A Movement for All
    • Say it with Fairtrade this Valentine’s Day
  • January (3)
    • Release: Fairtrade Flowers from Ecuador Direct to Your Door
    • Release: Fairtrade Listed Among Food Labels Fighting Injustice
    • Empowering producers means sharing power with producers!
• 2016
  • December (3)
    • Shop Your Values in the New Year: Sorting Through the Labels
    • 10 things you might not know about Fairtrade
    • 3 Tips to Live (and Give) with Purpose this Season
  • November (5)
    • Fairtrade Kicks A**!
    • Thanksgiving Coffee Picked as One of Top Coffee Roasters in the World
    • Release: Fairtrade International Welcomes New CEO
    • Realizing Cocoa's Full Potential in the Ivory Coast
    • Democracy in Action: Investing the Fairtrade Premium
  • October (10)
    • What is Fairness: A Small Happy Country
    • What is Fairness: Let’s make Fair Trade the norm, not the outlier
    • Fairtrade Pays: Helping Business Do Better
    • What is Fairness: Giving Voice to the Unheard Worker
    • Who’s the Fairest: Protecting Farmers and Children This Halloween
    • A Salute to Rural Women
    • Who’s the Fairest: Why Fairness in the Gum Industry Can Be a Sticky Subject
    • We are workers, not slaves: A Bangladeshi woman’s quest to change the fashion industry
    • Unexpectedly Fair: 10 Fairtrade Products that Might Surprise You
    • Who’s The Fairest? An Equal Opportunity for All
  • September (7)
    • The Fairest of Them All Campaign is Here!
    • Release: Ethical Sockmaker increases their impact; extends their purpose
    • Bees Partner with Coffee Farmers to Save the Farm
    • Who’s The Fairest? How NOT to Inspire Others to Shop Ethically
    • Fairtrade Impact: Making Theory a Reality
    • Fairtrade and Organic Go Hand in Hand
    • Fairtrade Working to Ensure Workers' Rights
  • August (4)
    • 5 things people get wrong about Fairtrade
    • Where Art, Flowers and Farm Workers Meet
    • 7 Ways to Fair Trade Your Wedding
    • How Fairtrade Helps End Human Trafficking
  • July (5)
    • 6 Ways to Fairtrade Your Coffee Shop
    • Food as a moral problem
    • Banana workers helping to rebuild a peaceful, just society in Colombia
    • The ‘write’ way to make your back-to-school Fairtrade
    • Fairtrade farmers take coffee quality to new heights in Guatemala
  • June (5)
    • Do you live in a Fair Trade Town?
    • Millennials, we believe in you…
    • A Fairly Direct Commentary on Coffee
    • Putting an End to Child Labor in Supply Chains
    • Farming Superheroes to the Rescue
  • May (5)
    • Being Clear on Transparency in Coffee
    • Inspiration in the Andes
    • International Climate Agreements are Failing Smallholder Farmers
    • How Fair Trade Affects Americans
    • 3 World Fairtrade Challenge Events
  • April (7)
    • Taking your Fairtrade event from good to great
    • Fairtrade Joins the Fashion Revolution
    • Farmers in Mexico Adapting to a Changing Climate
    • Transparency, Responsibility, Change, Revolution
    • Earthquake in Ecuador
    • Guest Blog: Toward More a Balanced Coffee
    • How to host a Fairtrade coffee cupping
  • March (4)
    • Finding Common Ground
    • Behind the Petal
    • Release: Fairtrade applauds the US move to close Legal Loophole in the Tariff Act
    • Release: Record Premium makes big difference for farmers and workers
  • February (6)
    • Growing our Cocoa, Raising our Voices
    • Fairtrade America Going Global
    • Rediscovering the "Safe" Sugar
    • Win Fairtrade Goodies to Share with your Valentine
    • Win Ice Cream for Breakfast
    • Fairtrade Bananas in St Lucia
  • January (3)
    • 5 Valentine's Day Tips for Wayward Lovers
    • Making the Cooperative Connection
    • "Free" Can Be Good, But Fair Is Better
• 2015
  • December (5)
    • A worms-eye view of climate change
    • Fair Trader Spotlight – Ten Thousand Villages
    • Fairtrade Climate Heroes Take Action
    • Alison's Guide to Ethical Holiday Shopping
    • Release: Fairtrade Inspiring Action against Climate Change
  • November (2)
    • Putting Value Back Into Price
    • The Fairtrade America Guide to Twitter Chats
  • October (16)
    • Make Your Fair Trade Month a Fair Trade Year in 5 Easy Steps
    • Salvadoran Coffee Farmer Plants Empowerment
    • Win a Fairtrade Baker, Maker, Extraordinary Creator Bundle
    • Make a LOFTy goal this Food Day
    • A Fairtrade Banana's Journey
    • A Nutritionist's View - Why I Choose Fairtrade Products
    • Bringing the School to the Mountains
    • Sweeten your day – thank a cocoa farmer
    • Raising the Voices of Rural Women
    • Win a Fairtrade Parents Bundle!
    • Taking Time Out to Reflect on a Sustainable Future
    • Making Bananas Better
    • Celebrating Day of the Girl Child
    • Win a Fairtrade Coffee Break / Tea Party Bundle
    • Release: Fairtrade Launches Climate Standard
    • Win a Fairtrade Camping Bundle!
  • September (6)
    • Celebrate Fair Trade Month This October
    • National Coffee Day
    • Don’t even THINK of parking here!
    • Big Deal in the Big Apple
    • The Pope, Climate Justice and Fairtrade
    • Fairtrade Premium Provides a Safety Net for Cooperative Coffee Farmers
  • August (1)
    • Release: Children’s Involvement in West African Cocoa Production: Supporting Farmer Organizations to Lead
  • July (5)
    • Tea farmers growing different and stronger with ADAPTea project
    • Fairtrade America speaks at UN meeting on Sustainable Development Goals
    • Release: Fairtrade America speaks at UN meeting on Sustainable Development Goals
    • Warming Up for the Headline Act in New York
    • The Tiger and the Goat
• 2014
  • October (4)
    • Thank you for Celebrating Fair Trade Month
    • Top 5 Reasons to Buy Fairtrade Flowers
    • Flower Power
    • This October, You Have the Power!
  • August (1)
    • Fairtrade coffee: a fairer deal and a more sustainable future for coffee farmers
  • May (1)
    • Paraguayan Pride: Farmers Open World's First Fairtrade Organic Sugar Mill