But is this a good idea? The Economist calls fair trade "an inefficient way to get money to poor producers." The Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, has referred to fair trade as a "well ...

Fair Trade (two words, capital F ... of the product’s dry weight is from a FAIRTRADE farm. Fairtrade coffee producers in Kenya. Photograph by Chris Terry. The price of coffee and cocoa for ...

Fair trade exists because the terms of trade in the global market are unfair and leave producers vulnerable. It is an alternative approach to conventional trade based on partnerships between producers ...

One of Fair Trade’s central paradoxes is that it sets out to achieve social justice using the same market mechanisms that impoverished small producers in the first place. Although this hybrid approach ...

The Fairtrade Foundation has appointed international development specialist Eleanor Harrison OBE as its new CEO.

Johnson told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that the trade war from Trump’s first term cost producers in the U.S. around $27 billion after other countries retaliated with their own tariffs.