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.

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

"Creating widespread, sustainable change for workers - particularly in the current global economic climate - is a tough challenge, but it must always be our focus. I am convinced that our new approach will help us realise this."

"Violence is no way to respond to legitimate workers' demands."

When it comes to the textile industry in Southern Africa, BBC's Justin Rowlatt got it wrong - the Chinese aren't coming, they are here. And it's both exciting and scary.

Could China's economic boom and changing consumer patterns unwittingly lead to poorer conditions for its workers as domestic orders begin to fill the gaps left by exiting international firms?

All of us in ethical trade need to do much more to help drive up wages worldwide, so that more parents can send their children to school - not out to work.