Articles in Fairtrade

Fair Trade USA (FTUSA) today announced a revised policy for its multi-ingredient label use. Under the revised Ingredients Policy, which applies to all food and personal care products, only products that contain 100 percent Fair Trade Certified ingredients may bear the full Fair Trade Certified label. Products containing at least 20 percent Fair Trade Certified ingredients will now bear a new Fair Trade Certified Ingredients label. The public has 60 days to make comments to FTUSA about the new ...

A coalition to end child slavery on West African cocoa farms, Slave Free Chocolate, has launched a campaign to correct U.S. Department of Labor Executive Order (EO) 13126: “Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor”, signed on June 12, 1999.   Currently, the EO addresses inappropriate cocoa from Cote d’ Ivoire and Nigeria, but not chocolate made with such cocoa. For this EO to have any effect at all the campaign asks that the words “and its ...

Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) & Survivors Connect (SC) announce the launch of iSpotFairTrade, a web-based map that allows anyone to identify where Fair Trade goods are bought and sold throughout the United States and Canada! iSpotFairTrade is crowd-sourced, so anyone can post information on the interactive maps about products associated with any of the widely accepted recognition/certification systems.“This easy-to-use tool will help conscious consumers find thousands of Fair Trade ...