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’ ...

Walking down the aisles of your local grocery store, you've likely noticed products labeled "fair trade" alongside other product options. These certified items, from coffee and chocolate to bananas ...

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 ...