Help us ensure that purchasing practices can help, not hinder, efforts to trade ethically.

As retailers foster closer working relations with their suppliers, how is the role of buyers evolving?

Sabita Banerji gets to the heart of the Living wage issue, and reports on the rallying cry from the Archbishop of York at the recent ETI and Global Compact Network UK’s living wage conference.

We have teamed up with the Ethical Trading Initiatives in Denmark and Norway to publish a new briefing on living wages in supply chains. ‘Living wages in global supply chains: a new agenda for business’ was launched in London this week, to an audience of businesses, NGOs, trade unions and stakeholders.

A growing labour shortage, rising skill levels and better wages are changing the nature of Chinese factories and the relationships between workers and employers.

Traidcraft promotes international trade being undertaken in a way which reduces poverty in developing countries. Fiona Gooch looks at who bears the cost of cheap food, following a recent Dispatches programme about working conditions within UK food supply chains.