For example ... Food and Rural Affairs. A number of third-party accrediting bodies, including Rainforest Alliance, share some of the same goals as Fairtrade International and follow fair trade ...

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, for example, is converting the vanilla sourced for its ice creams to Fair Trade Certified. Growth in the fairtrade market has generated $44 million in premium funds ...

Other groups have invested in things like health insurance, gasoline vouchers, health and sanitation kits, subsidized food ... for example, 40% of West Elm’s assortment will be Fair Trade ...

And to be fair, food production in this country has relied on a cheap (often undocumented) labor force to keep food prices low for so long that even farmers who want to pay their workers well are ...

Shannon Hooley Enright of Stillwater stocks the shelves of her new business, Small Things, with fair trade certified products ... who started the Cub Foods grocery store chain, Enright knew ...