October 27, 2005 Associated Press
	McDonald's to Start Selling Organic Coffee -- McDonald's Corp. will begin selling organic coffee at its New England restaurants next month, an arrangement that could propel growth for the Vermont-based roaster and help the fast-food chain compete for customers who avoid the Golden Arches in favor of a better cup of joe.
May 27, 2005 Sundance Press Release
	Sundance Serves Up Fair Trade Certified Coffee -- (Sundance, Utah) May 27, 2005—Sundance has decided to offer only Fair Trade Certified coffee at its resort and restaurants it was announced today. By partnering with Park City Roasters, a Fair Trade Certified company, owned and operated by Ray and Rob Hibl, Sundance will do its part to insure a livable wage for coffee laborers. Sundance is one of the few resorts in the country that is currently selling Fair Trade Coffee.
May 13, 2005 WireTap
	Small Purchases Make a Big Difference -- May 14th is World Fair Trade Day. Increasingly, consumers in the Global North concerned about where their food and crafts come from are willing to pay a little more for Fair Trade goods.
March 24, 2005 The Eagle
	AU groups support fair-trade coffee -- Debate over the ownership of a proposed coffee shop in the Mary Graydon Center is rising to the surface faster than it takes a pot to percolate. An unidentified student dropped two banners promoting Pura Vida coffee from the roof of Mary Graydon at 11:10 on Monday morning while many students were switching classes. One banner ripped and collapsed under its own weight, but the remaining one read "Ideas into Action: Living Wages, Organic, Shade-Grown, Nonprofit. Pura Vida - The Guilt-Free Choice." The banner remained suspended for more than an hour.
December 13, 2004 Americas Program at the Interhemispheric Resource Center
	To Die a Little -- Part II of previous article.
December 13, 2004 Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)
	To Die a Little: -- Ironically, coffee is one of the products where Mexican and Central American farmers should be profitable according to the theory of comparative advantages. But instead of a bonanza, coffee cultivation under current conditions has condemned the growers to poverty, exile, death, or charity. Meanwhile, transnational traders and international investment funds accumulate huge fortunes.
September 29, 2004 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
	Starbucks in alliance to maintain coffee supply -- Starbucks Coffee Co., hoping to triple the number of its shops around the world, is joining a U.S. development agency and environmental conservationists to help ensure a sustainable supply of high quality coffee from Latin America.
September 16, 2004 OXFAM
	US Plans to Rejoin International Coffee Organization -- As the largest coffee importing nation in the world, representing about a quarter of the world's consumption, the US can push for quality improvement programs, direct market access, and diversification initiatives, which could help increase the price that family farmers receive.
August 22, 2004 EFE via COMTEX
	Mexican coffee growers slam environmentalists' multinational ties -- Four coffee cooperatives in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have complained that U.S. environmental group Conservation International is trying to gain control of their harvests to sell to companies like Starbucks.
July 29, 2004 Reuters
	Guatemala Farm Rape Clouds Free Trade Debate -- GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The rape of a teen-age girl on a Guatemalan coffee farm is raising doubts about the Central American country's ability to clean up its labor record and win U.S congressional support for a free trade agreement.
July 06, 2004 The Battalion - News
	Duncan Coffee to begin offering Fair Trade variety -- A&M expressed its support for Fair Trade coffee March 7 in a University resolution that stated support for Duncan Coffee Company to purchase and sell certified, organic Fair Trade and shade-grown coffee from a Fair Trade cooperative.
June 08, 2004 The Wall Street Journal
	How Fair Is Fair Trade? That's Tough To Figure -- This article supplements the other June 8th 2004 Wall Street Journal article, and raises important questions about how FLO is monitoring its certification system
June 08, 2004 The Wall Street Journal
	What Price Virtue? At Some Retailers, 'Fair Trade' Carries A Very High Cost -- An interesting article discussing the pricing of Fair Trade products in mainstream retail outlets. Who gets to decide what is fair?
April 29, 2004 Albany Herald
	Coffee growers make case -- Nine co-op representatives from four countries explained their battle to win a fair price for their small coffee crops to former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta on Wednesday at The Carter Center before stopping in Plains for an afternoon tour.
April 29, 2004 Global Exchange
	Global Exchange and USFT Respond to Starbucks’ Fair Trade announcement -- Fair Trade activists, human rights advocates and student groups appreciate Starbucks’ decision to brew Fair Trade coffee during World Fair Trade Week (May 3-9, 2004). But they would be more impressed if the company made a permanent, significant commitment to Fair Trade purchasing. In 2000 Starbucks promised to sell Fair Trade Certified coffee—to head off a campaign by the international human rights group Global Exchange demanding that the company buy at least five percent of its coffee under Fair Trade Certified terms. Yet, in 2004 less than one percent of Starbucks’ coffee is Fair Trade Certified.
April 17, 2004 Miami Herald
	Starbucks Smelling the Coffee -- Growing at a pace of three stores a day, Starbucks fears an eventual shortage of coffee growers capable of meeting its standards -- and takes steps to do something about that.
April 06, 2004 Houston Chronicle
	Center to raise fair trade's profile -- A few months ago, nine mostly for-profit businesses in the Houston area formed the Houston Fair Trade Association and now have organized Houston's first celebration of the annual World Fair Trade Day.
March 29, 2004 San Francisco Business Times
	Fair Trade coffee grew 91 percent in 2003 -- TransFair USA, an Oakland-based nonprofit that certifies so-called fair trade coffee imports into the United States, said Monday that it certified 18.7 million pounds of such coffee in 2003, a 91 percent increase from 9.8 million pounds the year before.
March 11, 2004 IPS Inter Press Service
	DEVELOPMENT: Agricultural Subsidies Lock-In Coffee Farmers - Report -- The World Bank is blaming over-supply from coffee producing countries and protectionism in rich nations for complicating a worldwide coffee crisis that has dealt a blow to some 20 million farmers globally.
March 07, 2004 Washington Post
	Pursuing Justice One Cup at a Time -- Quakers who meet in Northwest Washington take a small step for global justice at their social functions by serving only "fair-trade" coffee. With concerns growing about globalized trade, faith groups across the country increasingly are connecting their java habit to their faith life by getting involved with the decades-old fair-trade movement.
March 07, 2004 The Allentown Times
	Area activist wakes up and picks the coffee -- In an effort to bring "fair trade" prices to private coffee farmers in Nicaragua, a college biology professor from Allentown, recently traveled to the South American country to lend a hand in this year's harvest.
February 15, 2004 USA Today
	Goodness to the Last Drop -- College activist Matt Bowlby knows more than most consumers about the plight of small-scale coffee farmers. The University of Minnesota senior can reel off all kinds of reasons to promote Fair Trade, a system that guarantees that growers in developing countries are paid enough to support their farms and families. But on this January morning, as he slips and slides down a muddy mountainside, a basket of coffee berries strapped to his waist, he discovers something he didn't know. Picking coffee, he says, "is more down and dirty than I imagined."... Bowlby, 22, visited here as part of a program coordinated by Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization. For $400 apiece plus travel expenses, each of the 11 participants, most of them college students, spent 12 days with a host family to help withla repela, or last pick of the season.
February 07, 2004 Wall Street Journal
	Is Your Grocery List Politically Correct? -- In the next couple of weeks, pineapples, mangos and grapes bearing "Fair Trade Certified" stickers will start hitting scores of supermarkets nationwide, part of a broader movement to make shoppers feel good about themselves and the food they are buying.
February 02, 2004 Boston Globe
	There's a new cause brewing on campuses -- While their predecessors in the 1960s and '70s urged people to boycott California grapes to show solidarity with migrant farm workers, Bar Am and Grody-Patinkin urge consumers to go out and shop -- albeit selectively. Their mission: to tip the balance of power in international trade in favor of small-scale coffee farmers impoverished by four years of depressed worldwide coffee prices.
January 27, 2004 Courier News
	Mexican farmers must cope with coffee glut -- In Mexico, more and more coffee farmers are abandoning their crops because wholesale prices set largely by multinational companies are at historic lows.In the past three years, Dominguez Rodriguez and his fellow farmers have made no profit from their coffee. It sells for half of his production costs.
January 21, 2004 Tide Pool
	Brewing a Better Cup -- As fair trade coffee gains ground with consumers, the industry's big players join in, leading to calls of 'greenwashing'
December 11, 2003 The Economist
	Planting trouble -- Vietnamese coffee-growers have suffered because of the glut in the market. But not the farmers in Khe Sanh, who have prospered and in the process prompted a nationwide recovery scheme.
December 08, 2003 The Financial Times
	Farmers of Ethiopia turn to khat as world coffee prices tumble -- In the past five years coffee's contribution to Ethiopia's foreign exchange earnings has fallen from 70 to below 40 per cent, while earnings from khat, an illegal amphetamine, doubled to $58m (£35m, ?48m). Farmers are quitting coffee and turning to producing this illegal drug.
December 02, 2003 USA Today
	Faith Organizations Throw Weight Behind 'Fair Trade' Coffee Movement -- A Catholic charitable organization has become the latest outfit to join religious groups backing the "Fair-Trade coffee" movement, an effort to help coffee farmers worldwide who are hurt by falling prices. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has announced an initiative aimed at boosting sales of fair-trade coffee among the nation's 65 million Catholics. The CRS Coffee Project partners with the Interfaith Coffee Program of Equal Exchange Inc., a Fair-Trade company based in Canton, Mass. The program includes organizations from the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist communities. It encourages the 19,000 Catholic parishes in the USA to endorse and sell fair-trade coffee. Plans for the project also include educating parishioners on the plight of coffee farmers.
November 30, 2003 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
	Fair Trade Benefits All Workers -- In recent years, it has become apparent that the new system of globalization and free trade has too often degenerated into one of crude exploitation of people and the environment in the developing world. Fair trade is based on a business model that puts workers and the environment first, not last. This is more than a politically correct marketing strategy. It really works. For example, millions of small- to medium-scale coffee growers all over the world have been devastated by plummeting prices in the last couple of years; fair trade farmers are thriving. Fair-trade concepts hold the promise of transforming globalization into a force that benefits the mass of humanity, not just the rich.