Start small by buying coffee with a fair trade label, which is typically located at one of the bottom corners on the bag’s front. Or, if you’re a specialty coffee drinker and are ready to nerd ...

Despite these challenges, coffee pickers oftentimes aren’t compensated fairly, earning as little as 15 cents for every kilogram of coffee beans they collect in places like Colombia, according to ...

Fair-trade coffee is everywhere. Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts – even Wal-Mart – proudly feature beans they bought at a higher, "fair" price that pays growers a living wage. You get good coffee.

Level Ground Trading Company, based in British Columbia, promotes their coffee as being “direct fair trade,” which means that they have a personal relationship with farmers while ...

Never has so much coffee been consumed around the world - more than two billion cups per day. The market has exploded in value and is now worth $200 billion. But as the coffee business becomes ...

A man holds up coffee beans above a basket for roasting at Giang Lo Duc coffee shop in Hanoi August 7, 2012. Reuters/Kham On May 20, the country’s oldest “fair trade” coffee company, Equal ...

Before they opened State Street mainstays Michaelangelo’s and Fair Trade Coffeehouse, Sam Chehade and Lori Henn met in a bar. Henn was working at the University of Wisconsin and Chehade had been ...

All of the independent coffee shops in town offer fair trade coffee, ... Mexico and Colombia to meet with the very farmers whose coffee ends up in the cups of her customers in Mankato and St. Peter.

On the hillsides of Riosucio in the Caldas State of Colombia, 62-year-old Edwardo Antonio is one of over 400 Fairtrade coffee farmers. Owning three hectares of land, Antonio used to make a nominal ...