Tag: UNCTAD

  • History of Fair Trade

    Like many of you, my relationship with fair trade began with coffee. Since then, I’ve gone from buying fair trade whenever possible to starting my own fair trade business, Noah’s Gifts and Gallery. Despite my long relationship with and support for fair trade I didn’t know much about its history. I took the time recently…

  • Fair Trade – A Growing Movement

    The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published some interesting statistics pertaining to the fair trade global movement. The fair trade movement comprises over 2.5 million producers and workers from 70 countries, over 500 specialized importers, 4,000 world shops and more than 100,000 volunteers – figures that are growing, according to Mr. Corbalán.…