Column: Independent Smallholder Farmers are the Silent Majority
by Miguel Zamora of Coffee Gente This past spring, during the Specialty Coffee Association of America conference in Boston, I had the privilege of organizing [...]
Most Popular This Week
Evaluating the Impact of Fair Trade USA’s FT4All Program
by Michael Sheridan of CRS Coffeelands Blog This week, more than 15 months after it broke with Fairtrade International and rewrote the rules of Fair Trade [...]
McDonald’s Investing $6.5 Million In Guatemalan Farm Assistance
McDonald’s is investing more than $6.5 million over four-and-a-half years in a technical assistance program to help approximately 13,000 coffee farmers in Central America produce [...]
The Failure of Fair Trade and Four Steps Moving Forward
by Matt Earley Matt Earley is a Co-Founder and Farmer Relations/Outreach Coordinator at Just Coffee Cooperative in Madison, WI. In January 2013, Earley was part of [...]
Fair Trade Chronicles: Part 2 (Video)
In Part 2 of the Fair Trade Chronicles video series, the team discusses a water project in Aurora Esquipulas, in Chiapas, Mexico. About the Fair [...]
Ugandan Coffee Farmers Featured in Whole Foods Film Series
A group of religiously diverse coffee farmers who formed a cooperative this in Uganda are the subject of a short film in the Do Something [...]
Farmer Brothers Targeting Higher End Market with ‘Artisan Collection’
Farmer Brothers has launched an “Artisan Collection” line of coffees, the majority of which are either Rainforest Alliance Certified or USDA Certified Organic and Fair Trade [...]
Equal Exchange Criticizes Fair Trade USA in Full-Page Ad
Bridgewater, Mass.-based coffee roastery and co-op Equal Exchange has taken out a full-page at in the Burlington Free Press urging Waterbury, Vt.-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters [...]
Fair Trade USA Questioned for Allowing Large Coffee Plantations
Fair Trade USA’s recent decision to allow some coffee grown on large plantations to receive the fair trade designation has led some coffee professionals to [...]
