It may well be the high streets first fairtrade sofa. It comes as part of Marks and Spencer's Fern Collection, which they say means you won't have to compromise on style or comfort to help the environment and make stand for justice.

Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation was last night awarded the prestigious title of Credit Suisse Outstanding Woman in Business at this year’s National Business Awards. The event was hosted by Andrew Marr at a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.

Global sales of Fairtrade coffee are holding up well despite an economic slowdown, coffee dealers and farmers' unions have said.

Fairtrade options are now available for fruit, tea, coffee, chocolate and even flowers, but one company is now producing fairtrade bird food.

Latest research commissioned by the Fairtrade Foundation and launched to coincide with World Fair Trade Day, shows more UK consumers than ever before recognise the FAIRTRADE Mark.

The Tufts Institute for Global Leadership has awarded a coffee company in California a prestigious award for supporting a co-op of Muslim, Christian and Jewish farmers in Africa. The Dr John Mayer Global Citizenship award has been given to the Thanksgiving Coffee Co. of Fort Bragg.

Sales of fairtrade chocolate look as if they will hit new highs this Easter with a broader range of fairtrade Easter eggs than ever before.

Britain’s appetite for Fairtrade produce is higher than most – UK shoppers are the second largest global customers of fairly traded products. But is this news quite as positive as we’ve been led to believe?

Supermarkets today are being branded “heartless” over exploiting overseas workers who face poor wages, health problems and job insecurity supplying flowers sold as Valentine’s Day gifts in Britain. The accusation comes from War on Want.

Designs carrying the fairtrade cotton Mark are being profiled at in a new area of the show dedicated to ethical and eco-friendly fashion. Pieces made with Fairtrade cotton will also hit the catwalk as the finalists of a Fairtrade cotton t-shirt design competition profile their work