The news and information in this section pertains to Fair Trade and Supply Chain issues.
Fair trade is an organized social movement that aims to satisfy sustainable criteria regarding the supply chains of goods. Principles usually include fair payment for producers and other social and environmental considerations. Part of an organized social movement, fair trade promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in commerce between developed and undeveloped countries.
The Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) is a powerful mediator in the global supply-chain, intent on elevating suppliers’ standards of employee treatment to a common, respectable ethic across the world. Key to GSCP’s motivations is injecting an effective method of...
BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Nov. 20 /CSRwire/ - Winners for this week's Brazilian Fair Trade Certified coffee cupping competition have been announced. Sebastiao Reguim of the producer association, Unipcafem, and Marcos Antonio Nali of the producer association, Pro-nova, won first place in the...
WASHINGTON D.C., Nov. 19 /CSRwire/ - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the International Labour Organization are meeting today with governments, garment industry leaders, and labor-related organizations to promote labor standards for millions of workers and expand efforts to increase...
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Nov. 19 /CSRwire/ - Everyone hates traffic. It eats up time, wastes energy and emits harmful carbon dioxide. As population and urbanization increase, experts say traffic is only getting worse. Kraft Foods is addressing this challenge by finding alternatives to trucking...
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 17 /CSRwire/ - TransFair USA, the third-party certifier of Fair Trade Certified™ products in the United States, today announced that it is extending the "Fair Trade lifestyle" into cotton clothing, bed and bath products. The first Fair Trade Certified apparel...
NEW YORK, Nov. 04 /CSRwire/ - Today is Shop Green Mall's Grand Opening! Only certified green products, businesses and services are found at Shop Green Mall. The mission of the Mall is to strengthen the green business economy by recycling our money within...
Subscribe to alerts
Subscribe to rss
Breaking Headlines