We catch up with Marike Runneboom de Peña from Fairtrade International about moves to update the Fairtrade standards ...

Last year, 1.6 million Fairtrade farmers and workers across 75 countries benefited from an estimated €138 million (approx. US $155 million) in a Fairtrade premium, according to Fairtrade International ...

For over 20 years, Fairtrade International has been working to secure decent working conditions, fair prices and better terms of trade for the nearly two million commodity farmers in the Global South ...

Fairtrade International — a coalition of 28 organizations working to make trade fairer throughout the world — is welcoming comments from throughout the garment and textile supply chains on the new ...

Created and produced by Radley Yeldar, the film encourages manufacturers to buy more Fairtrade cocoa, sugar and cotton by letting them source their key commodity on Fairtrade terms, which can be used ...

Expanding Fairtrade International's reach a logical route to change says CEO ahead of Human Rights Day New report concedes value chains fraught with inequalities despite rise in due diligence ...

Fairtrade International will increase the minimum price it pays farmers for cocoa next year. Effective from October, the Germany-based organisation said it will raise the minimum price for ...

The higher minimum prices and premiums that Fairtrade guarantees farmers are "unfair", according to the founder of social venture Cacao for Change. Last week, Fairtrade International announced it ...

You might not know it from its generally low price tag, but chocolate has a host of production issues, from child labor on cacao farms to issues with deforestation. Chocolate isn’t alone in this ...

In Côte d’Ivoire, employees at Fairtrade-certified cocoa cooperatives have higher salaries and better working conditions than those at non-certified organizations. Farm laborers, on the other hand, ...