Foreign worker, non-status worker, temporary worker, irregular worker, illegal alien, criminal aliens are the names we use to describe the "other". Lou Dobbs longtime host of CNN finance a...

Assessing fair trade's effects on development and small farmers requires a balance between effects for individual farmers versus the reach of the fair trade standard: the higher the fair trade premi...

Farmworker unions in Ontario are a hot potato for governments. We hate to hear about heat deaths or "accidents" on farms but we also love the idea of the "family farmer". This ha...

The Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) serves and advocates for agricultural workers across Canada. It works towards the human and civil rights that other workers have enjoyed: health and safety pro...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has signed an agreement with a major food service company to improve working conditions for the some of the most exploited farm workers in the United States....

What about food security? What about the concern about the local transport emissions from us the disorganized local shopper? Sunny Lam raises the benefits of local food on guaranteeing food su...

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...

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...

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? ...

We recommend the products, stores, and producers at the FGF Directory of ethical products.   Read all about fair trade and support the site (through referral commissions) at our Fair Trad...

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...

From David Suzuki to Will Ferrel... quotes on the interrelationships and challenges of humanity, economy, environment, technology, life, pollution amongst others...  CSR - Corporate Socia...

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. The ...