Tagged: fair trade

1. 01 The trade · 12 Jul 2026 The Farmer Who Bought Back the Farm He Worked for Wages Jacobus Koopman used a government land-reform loan to buy the Suid Bokkeveld farm where he had worked for wages. He and thirteen neighbours turned that into Heiveld, an organic rooibos co-operative that later had to defend its independence from its own government.
2. 02 The trade · 5 Mar 2026 Three Different Promises on a Rooibos Label Organic, Fair Trade, and Rainforest Alliance are three different promises on a rooibos label, not one certification. Here is what each stamp verifies, and what predicts which farmers hold one.
3. 03 The trade · 26 Feb 2026 Nobody Has Ever Auctioned a Kilogram of Rooibos Nearly every major tea in the world passes through a public auction where buyers bid in the open. Rooibos never has. Here is how its price actually gets set, and why the gap has never been filled.
4. 04 The trade The trade The Rooibos Trade How the red bush is priced without a public auction, where the crop actually goes, what its certification marks verify, how the name is legally protected, and how concentrated the buying side really is.