If you care about where your coffee comes from and have a Nespresso machine, you're probably wondering if the company's pods ...

Fair Trade Coffee NPR's Danny Zwerdling goes to Guatemala to trace coffee's passage to coffee houses in this country. Coffee prices are high, but farmers in places such as Guatemala get very ...

Fair Trade pays $1.55 per lb. for Antonio’s organic coffee, almost 10% more than the market price. But Antonio is left with only 50¢ per lb. after paying Fair Trade cooperative fees ...

Coffee-shop owner Kileen Cleberg was already a big believer in fair-trade coffee last year when she went to Guatemala to check out fair-trade coffee farms. The trip was organized by Just Coffee ...

The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee . ... Ethiopia, and Guatemala, coffee exports make up an enormous share of the export earnings, comprising in some cases more than 50 percent of foreign exchange ...

While not a new concept, the specialty coffee industry has embraced “direct trade” in the last decade years. The term reflects a farm-to-table ethos in a product that has to travel thousands ...

When Clay Sharkey and Eric Poppler – co-owners of Mankato-based Beans Coffee Company – began selling their roasted organic coffee beans at the Mankato Farmers Market in 2013 – they ...