Facing higher inflation and economic uncertainty, farmers have less cushion to face tariffs than they did during the first ...

As trade tensions with China continue to simmer, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed the Trump administration is ...

What is our role as consumers? My new book, Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers Are Changing the World, tackles these tough, timely questions. We each have the ...

He’d just returned from the war-torn highlands of Nicaragua, where he’d spent 11 years working with farmers creating the country’s first fair-trade coffee cooperative. He aimed to scale the ...

Fairtrade-certified co-operatives like Yeyasso have immediately signed on but others have less financial or logistical resources to reach all farmers. “The major challenge is the sustainability of the ...

Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers Are Changing the World (Hachette Book Group, 2025) by Paul Rice, founder of ...

Illinois farmers expect to plant about 10.5 million acres of soybeans, an area equivalent to nearly 30% of the state’s entire land mass. China is by far the largest customer for soybean exports, ...

Ohio farmers know what a trade war feels like. But President Donald Trump's latest tariffs are creating uncertainty as ...

From the founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, a critical account of the ... have to protect the environment and improve the lives of farmers and workers on the far side of our global supply chains.

Or why there has been an explosion of interest in farmers’ markets around the ... or buying products with ethical certifications like Fair Trade can’t perfectly fulfill this desire for ...