Air Quote by Miguel A. Altieri

Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational…

— Paul Rice

When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of…

— Colin Firth

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.

— Howard Schultz

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

— Billy Corgan

“The marketplace has many similarities to nature's rainforest and oceanic ecosystems. Left to their own devices, the marketplace and the earth's ecosystems are self-regulating.…

— Mary J. Ruwart

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

— Bryant Terry

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you.…

— Rose George

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just…

— Chris Martin

“Forests are places where we can get back in touch with our inner selves, where we can walk on soft ground, breathe in natural…

— Pierre Lieutaghi

Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food…

— Gary Snyder

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is…

— David Grann

I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of…

— Charlie Munger