15 of the Best Fair Trade Coffee Brands

By The Culture-ist

These sustainability-conscious and satisfyingly-tasty coffee roasters focus on providing fair working conditions and wages for farmers in developing countries (and saving the planet as a whole).

• Peace Coffee

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  Peace strives to sustain livelihoods, preserve the environment, delight taste buds, and overall make the world a better place, one deliciously crafted organic coffee cup at a time.

• Equal Exchange

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  Actively working in collaboration with small farmers, Equal Exchange is on a sustainable mission to demonstrate the importance of Fair Trade worker co-operatives in establishing big change.

• Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters

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  B&B’s unique coffee collection includes Legends (the heritage blends), Latitudes (blends from around the globe), Attitudes (bold and surprising blends), and Voyagers (rare, limited flavors). 

• The Roasterie

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  Roasterie travels to the ends of the earth for the best beans and air roasts them to ideal temperatures, unlocking exquisite flavor to inject into their organic, fair-trade certified coffees.

• DOMA Coffee

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  The environmentally sound DOMA is driven by their goals to reduce, reuse, recycle and repurpose in efficient and effective ways, and to place the farmers and their product front and center.

• Stumptown Coffee Roasters

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  With HQs in Portland and locations in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, Stumptown sources the best coffee worldwide and strives to maintain transparent, quality relationships with farmers.

• Percol

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  A pioneer of fair trade roast and ground coffees in the UK, Percol ventures to regions far and wide in search of diverse coffees with varied intensities and flavors.

• Pura Vida Coffee

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  Devoted to creating good, the cause-driven Pura Vida is one of the first companies to sell exclusively fair trade coffee on a national basis.

• Larry's Beans

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  With an approach to treat people and the planet fairly, Larry’s Beans is committed to blending and slow-roasting innovative, unique and delicious coffees and to making the world a better place

• Grounds for Change

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  Family owned and operated in the Pacific Northwest, Grounds for Change ensures that every single bean roasted is certified Fair Trade Organic, as well as CarbonFree certified.

• Dean's Beans

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  Dean’s Beans only purchases beans from importers that are committed to Fair Trade and to working towards better economic opportunities and improved health and nutrition in their communities. 

• Café Mam

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  100% organic, fair trade and fresh roasted, the family owned and operated Mam sources from fair trade co-ops of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala.

• Higher Ground Roasters

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  Operating under a mindset of better beans by fairer means, Higher Ground only roasts Certified Organic, fair trade and shade-grown coffees.

• Café Campesino

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  This organic, fair trade, shade-grown and Georgia-based coffee company envisions a world in which Fair Trade is the norm rather than a niche in the global economy.

• Kickapoo Coffee Roasters

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  The award-winning, organic fair trade roasters of Kickapoo are inspired by a unique mission: to unite artisanal quality and social justice.