At Kabum, we think it’s time to quite literally take things up a notch. Or several notches. Whereas fair trade raises the floor of what local farmers are paid, we blow the ceiling off — by sending the vast majority of profits back to the individual growers. We also pay retroactive bonuses for a quality product after harvest time and administer microloans so that individual farmers can own their own land and their own equipment and aren’t beholden to others in the harvesting process.
We call this truly humanitarian-based way of doing things “True Trade.”