The regulation of commercial activity across countries is the focus of free trade and fair trade policies, but both address the topic from different perspectives. Free trade focuses on the reduction ...

Brazil Cooperative director Luis Adauto, center, inspects coffee trees on Rosevaldo Pereiras farm with Paul Rice, preisdent of Fair Trade USA, a nonprofit group that promotes and certifies fair trade.

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 ...

The Fair Trade Certified seal appears on a fast-growing number of products, but what does it mean? Your customers could be looking for Fair Trade businesses, putting you at a competitive disadvantage ...

In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. On one side is a group that emphasizes the interests of commodity producers in developing-world countries. On the other side is a group that ...