Socially Responsible Business
The Future of Fair Trade…Is There One?
If Fair Trade coffee quality doesn’t improve, the Direct Trade movement will quickly become a growing threat.
If Fair Trade coffee quality doesn’t improve, the Direct Trade movement will quickly become a growing threat.
COO of Bats'il Maya Alberto Irezabal talks about the social environment in Chiapas that led to the founding of the organization, and how the co-op works.
As parents spend more time raising their profitable coffee crop, they spend less time attending to their children's needs.
The B Corp seal of approval distinguishes truly responsible businesses from mere poseurs.
How does an organization not only promote green and sustainable products but also conduct business in a socially responsible way? At the Stanford 2008 Responsible Supply Chains Conference, leaders of three pioneering enterprises talk in a panel discussion about how they integrate fair trade, sustainable design, green purchasing, and public/private partnerships into every aspect of their business. They offer advice for other organizations and share how they are working to promote social responsibility in their respective industries.
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.
Good Capital invests in socially responsible Adina.
Coffee price fluctuations over past decades have created extreme financial crises and long-term poverty for thousands of small-scale Latin American farmers. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation sponsored audio lecture, David Funkhouser of TransFair USA, details how the Fair Trade movement arose as a market-based approach to poverty alleviation and international development. He discusses Fair Trade's function to offer suppliers fair, above-market prices, and TransFair's role in supporting that movement.
World of Good connects female artisans in poor countries with retailers (including Whole Foods Market, pictured) in the West.