Fair Trade News

National Fair Trade Weeks 2008: Choose Fair Trade - Everyone Wins!

April 30th. Transfair Canada press release about Fair Trade weeks.

Fair Trade or fairly traded?

May 8, 2008. Minnesota Daily article discusses the coffee chain and coffee quality, citing Peace Coffee as an example of a true fair trader.

Fair trade still striving to create an identity

April 26, 2008. More people beginning to recognize that fair trade is not necessarily free trade. This Vancouver Sun article looks at consumers' growing awareness of fair trade, and at the challenges that still lie ahead in terms of people's notions of fair trade goes beyond just a "fair price".

Regular, decaf or ethical?

Report on panel discussion at the University of Vermont titled "How Green Is Your Coffee?", featuring Monika Firl, producer relations at CoopCoffees, Mane Alves, CoopCoffees member and coffee cupper, and Ernesto Mendez, a UVM professor and contact for El Comanur cooperative in EL Salvador, looks the coffee crisis and the role fair trade plays in coffee producing countries.

A Wal-Mart PR Issue Brews Anew

Business Week. Retailing April 1, 2008, 6:35PM EST. The retailer's initiative to offer fair-trade coffee is pleasing environmentalists but reheating a debate over treatment of its workers

Coffee with a cause

Consumer Reports: Greener Choices, Products for a Better Planet. A look at the gamut of coffee labels, and how to distinguish between them.

Making Sense of Certification — Fair Trade, Direct Trade, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, Whole Trade, and Organic.

March 30th 2008 Posted to Coffee Certification. Thorough overview of different coffee certifications and what they mean.

Fears grow that food inflation threatens Fairtrade

Interesting Guardian article looks at the rising prices of the commodities market, and the affect this might have on fair trade producer cooperatives.

'Teach us how to fish - do not just give us the fish'

March 12th Guardian article that looks at the stories of three producers whose communities have been changed by becoming fair trade.

World's Consumers Embrace Fair-Trade Marketing

This march 12th article by the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) looks at the growing success of fair trade marketing.

How Fair is Fairtrade?

In response to fair trade's skyrocketing popularity in the UK, this BBC article looks at the questions that have been asked (particularly by the Adams Smith Institute) on the effect fair trade has in the developing world, and finds the resulting increased self-sufficiency of producers.

Triple Play: Peace Coffees New CEO emphasizes People,Planet, and Profits

 

The Wall Street Journal’s Fair Trade Faux Pas

The Bean Activist blog reacts to the recent article in the WSJ on Fair Trade Travel, their free trade misnomer, and misguided interpretation that growth, and not justice, is the guiding force behind these efforts.

Tours to Fair-Trade Farms Help Coffee Sellers Spread Word

Wall Street Journal article on fair trade tours-highlighting Coop Coffees members Just Coffee, Higher Grounds, and Pura Vida-and their role in helping customers become fair trade ambassadors by seeing benefits first hand.

Does Fairtrade = Environmentally Friendly?

EcoSpace Conscious Community writes an article examining the environmental impact of importing fair trade goods in terms of their ecological footprint.

UK-based Fairtrade Foundation Responds to Adam Smith Institute Report

The Adams Smith Institute think tank recently released a flawed report decrying the injustices and insufficiencies of fair trade. The Fairtrade Foundation gives a counterpoint of each of their arguments in this press release.

Small-scale farmer coffee co-operative in solidarity with landless farm workers

CECOCAFEN given as an inspiring example of the role of fair trade cooperatives within a community.

Ethics on the high street: how Fairtrade changed lives

The Herald. February 19 2008, by REBECCA McQUILLAN.

Pura Vida Coffee wins support of the House

Seattle Times reports on Coop Coffees member Pura Vida's bid to sell coffee to the U.S. House of Representatives based on a gold old fashioned taste test.

New CEO for Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International

A potential new voice in fair trade as FLO announces its new CEO to step in in November 2007.

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