Articles

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/feb/23/fair-trade-fortnight-work

-The great thing about supporting fair trade is that you instantly get something tangible in return. If you buy fair trade chocolate, for example, you not only get to support the chocolate growers, you also get a bar of chocolate.

-The most common fair trade products are all copiously consumed in offices up and down the country – tea, coffee and chocolate. So switching your office's supplies to a fair trade brand will make a big difference.



http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/jun/30/fair-trade-usa-coffee-rugs-farmers-factories-paul-rice

-You can buy Fairtrade chocolate, tea, bananas, mangos, sugar, flowers, spices, wine and much more in the US, but coffee remains by far the leading category, accounting for $30.8m, or nearly 80%, of the premiums distributed in 2013 by Fair Trade USA. Those premiums are paid directly to farmers, who collectively decide how to spend them, and they arrive above and beyond the base Fairtrade price guaranteed to farmers in the system.