Organic Ethiopian Coffee
Fair Trade USA:
Fair Trade USA is a market-driven model that empowers farmers and workers by ensuring they receive fair compensation for their products and have the resources to invest in their communities. It focuses heavily on the human element of the supply chain, ensuring that the people producing the goods can sustain a decent livelihood.
Fair Trade USA is a market-driven model that empowers farmers and workers by ensuring they receive fair compensation for their products and have the resources to invest in their communities. It focuses heavily on the human element of the supply chain, ensuring that the people producing the goods can sustain a decent livelihood.
These are the government-regulated organic standards for North America. While they are distinct programs, they have an equivalency agreement, meaning products certified to one standard can often be sold as organic in the other’s market with relative ease.
The Rainforest Alliance (recognized by its green frog seal) focuses on making sustainability the new normal. Unlike Fair Trade, which focuses heavily on pricing mechanisms, or Organic, which focuses on inputs, the Rainforest Alliance takes a comprehensive farm-management approach. It ensures that farming methods protect the environment while simultaneously improving the lives of farming communities.
SCS Certification (provided by SCS Global Services) is a globally recognized third-party verification for environmental, sustainability, and quality claims. It helps businesses—particularly in food, agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing—verify standards like Recycled Content, Organic practices, and Carbon Footprint reduction. SCS Global is highly respected for its rigorous, science-based approach to environmental and sustainability certification. They are a “one-stop-shop” for certification because they are accredited to audit a massive variety of standards across agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, and building.
(Certification of Environmental Standards GmbH) is an international inspection and certification body based in Germany. Founded to evaluate agricultural and environmental practices, it specializes in auditing organic food, sustainable textiles (like GOTS), Good Agricultural Practices, and climate protection projects