What could be a better blend of fun and fair trade than dripping fair trade chocolate over your partner or doing unspeakable things with bananas. Zazubean and other chocolate companies have gone af...

Just when you thought it was safe to put away your pencil and take off your thinking cap, the Fairtrade Foundation (UK) has brought out an exiting and educational fair trade themed online sudoku gam...

Canadians can enjoy delicious, organic, fair trade spices from Sri Lanka, thanks to the efforts of the Small Organic Farmers Association  and Sahana, a small Canadian company. Sahana imports Ar...

Grain prices shoot up as a result of ethanol and biofuels or demand in China or global warming, but the price of food is still cheap relative to other things we take for granted like cell phones, co...

I love Chocolate, especially, when it is free of child labour, fingers, and chemicals [i.e. Fair Trade]. Here is a little (ok a lot of) background information on where chocolate comes from and how i...

Can we put our personal actions and values into our work? Here are a few sites that present jobs and advice for people who are looking for work that is about more than the bottom line. GoodWo...

What would fair trade look like in a musical context? At the least, some initial criteria might include: fair share of royalties and support for musicians in between royalty payments artis...

Every day should be fair trade day, but from May first to fifteenth Canada highlights the importance of fair trade throuhg tastings, films, meet-ups and lots of fun events. The wide range of events i...

Alberto García died in February in his rural village of San Matías Cuijingo, Juchitepec, Mexico. He was 39, and is survived by his wife Mirabel and three children. He had fallen ill in...

Have fun jumping around chasing cocoa beans, while you learn about fair trade! Choca Monkey places you in command of a cacao loving monkey trying to earn money through selling on the open or fair tr...

When we think of fair trade, coffee and chocolate may jump to mind but what about the day-to-day transactions that we carry out in our own homes? Fair Trade Cleaning has come to sweep away the guil...

The Institute of Marketecology (IMO ) is set to expand on the fair trade promotion and certification work of Transfair Canada and Transfair USA. The IMO's Fair for Life standard presents a more flex...

Fair trade discussion often focus on improving labour conditions of workers in developing or less developed countries, but what about workers in the fruit and vegetable industry in North America? ...

Learn all about how fair trade works and how everyone can help contribute to making a fairer production and trade system. The Marquis Project prepared these board games for use in high school class ...

The Fairtrade Labelling Organization (FLO) sets standards for a wide variety of fair trade products. However, each of these products are not necessarily available in every country. Further fair trade ...

Soft fruit requires a soft-touch, which all too often means that a human suffers so you can indulge The most vulnerable workers in society often get stuck with the triple "D" jobs: difficult...

Fair trade is all about giving producers and workers a better deal while providing consumers with the choice to know that they are not eating or consuming bloody or slave produced treats. T...