Note: This represents a first-hand account of stakeholder meetings held July 10, 2013. Last week the United States and the […]
Kerstin Lindgren is Fair World Project’s former Campaign Director. Prior to that she worked with a variety of food and agriculture businesses and NGOs, including the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA). She holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Food and Environment from Tufts University.
In April, Fair Trade USA released a new draft labeling policy for multi-ingredient products, proposing to maintain a threshold requirement […]
Ask most ethically-minded shoppers whether a chocolate bar bearing a fair trade label on the front contains mostly fair trade […]
Hershey has committed to “sustainable cocoa and improving the lives of cocoa communities,” through an announcement in October 2012 to […]
If you have ever thought Rainforest Alliance Certified is equivalent to fair trade, you are not alone… In previous blogs […]
You may have heard that coffee carrying a fair trade label was grown by small-scale producers. Last year, for the […]
Some of you may already be boycotting companies like Honest Tea whose parent companies donated money to defeat Proposition 37, the […]