A former banana farm worker, Costa Rican trade union leader and COLSIBA coordinator writes on the absolute necessity of involving trade unions in living wage implementation processes for banana and other agro-industrial farm workers.

In this valedictory blog, Sabita Banerji reflects on her work in our Knowledge and Learning Team and the changes she saw in her five years at ETI.

Rachel Wilshaw, Oxfam’s Ethical Trade Manager looks back on the astonishing 20 year rise of Fairtrade. And asks if it's time the UK government intervened on banana pricing.

Stirling Smith expects few surprises in the ethical trade stories that will hit the headlines in 2014.

With the North East of England suffering from the lowest wages in the UK, the Northern TUC's Neil Foster looks ahead to this week's Living Wage Summit.

A footprint of poverty in Kenyan fresh produce: Oxfam’s new report with IPL