Paul Rice is Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, the internationally-
acclaimed social enterprise and leading certifier of Fair Trade products
in North America. Since its launch in 1998, Fair Trade USA and its
partners have generated almost $500 million in additional income for
farmers and workers in more than 70 countries worldwide, allowing
them to keep their kids in school, care for the land and steadily improve
their livelihoods.

Paul’s rich, first-hand experience over the last 30 years in the areas of
sustainable agriculture, grassroots economic development, global
supply chain transparency and consumer activation is unique in the
certification world. He is now a leading advocate of “impact sourcing” as
a core strategy for both poverty alleviation and sustainable business…
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Don’t miss Paul’s sessions:

Keynote: The Human Face of Sustainability: Empowering Fishers,
Farmers, and Workers

Plenary: Being Inclusive Without Being Exclusive: How to Make Supply
Chains Work for Everyone
with Sarah Hogan, Program Officer of David & Lucile Packard
Foundation; Paul Rice, Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA; and Richard
Welford, Chairman of CSR Asia