Delegates at the London Chocolate Forum were address today (October 7) by Ivorian cocoa farmer, Fortin Bley, who warned that without an increase in efforts to...
A new survey, published today, 17 August 2016, has revealed that the vast majority of British consumers believe it is the responsibility of businesses and the...
In March, we reported that Charity Bank was backing a chocolate factory set to support people with disabilities, and Divine Chocolate was our Ethical Retail of the...
World leaders from UN member states, including David Cameron, will formally adopt the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to end global poverty and reduce...
Ethical Consumer’s annual conference takes place in London on Friday September 25th and will focus on the key issue of how the ethical market can move...
Whilst UK supermarkets are beginning to compete against each other on ethical aspects, the rise of discounters Aldi and Lidl could threaten the progress made, according...
The free market has proved unable to eradicate social injustice and has become nothing but a ‘myth’, the Fairtrade Foundation’s chief has said during the event...
Young Britons who have grown up in the era of a flourishing fairtrade market are highly sensitive to global issues and want to see businesses taking action to...
By prioritising profits over the needs of smallholder farmers, agricultural public-private partnerships (PPS) across Africa may be worsening poverty, the Fairtrade Foundation has warned. In a new...
Tim Aldred, Stuart Singleton-White, Sam Bowman and Linda Whetstone are the confirmed speakers for Sustainable September’s retail debate on September 10 at the Royal Geographical Society....
Athletes, officials, workers and visitors will be served fairtrade-only bananas, tea, coffee and sugar during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Fairtrade Foundation has revealed....
Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Sustainable September Retail Debate – where leading thinkers will debate the benefits and negatives of free trade and fair trade – will...
Proponents of free trade and fair trade will lock horns in London later in September, in a debate around which is most effective in helping developing...
What will business look like in the future and who are our future leaders? This is the next instalment in our series speaking with a group...
A petition launched by the Fairtrade Foundation asking supermarkets to pay a fair price to banana farmers has reached 70,000 signatures and has been handed to...