When Wal-Mart announced in February it would raise wages for employees to $10/hour by next year, initial reaction was positive. […]
Kerstin Lindgren is Fair World Project’s former Campaign Director. Prior to that she worked with a variety of food and agriculture businesses and NGOs, including the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA). She holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Food and Environment from Tufts University.
The current federal minimum wage is $7.25. There has been a lot of well-warranted excitement recently about cities and states […]
In December 2014, the LA Times published a four-part series exposing terrible working conditions on large-scale fruit and vegetable farms […]
The EPA is now taking comments (Through August 18, 2014) on its proposed rule Pesticides: Agricultural Worker Protection Standard. Though […]
In response to the recent report Fairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda, over 100 committed producers, traders, […]
The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction Project released its final report on its four-year research into agricultural labor in Ethiopia […]
Fairtrade International recently released a proposal called the Fairtrade Sourcing Partnership that would allow a fair trade label (similar to […]
In late August, Fair Trade USA (FTUSA) announced a new labeling policy for multi-ingredient products. When the initial draft of […]
If you have been following the news this summer, you may have noticed a trend of workers along the food […]