First coffee and chocolate, now entire towns obtain Fair Trade status. Taos was among the first. Now, San Francisco is the seventh American community to join the movement. By Ross Burns.

Ama Kade harvests cocoa pods in Ghana. Kanya Osori grows rice in northeastern Thailand. Palemon Cuno Surco creates traditional Peruvian pottery in a small village near Cusco. They live thousands of miles away from each other, speak different languages and their cultures couldn’t be more different.