Domestic Fair Trade Association

Domestic Fair Trade Association The Domestic Fair Trade Association is a nonprofit coalition dedicated to health, justice, and sustainability in the food and farming system.

Vision

The agriculture and economic system is a healthy community where all look after and support each other, everyone feels safe, and all contribute to and benefit from a clean and harmonious environment. Family-scale and community-scale farms and businesses thrive. All people recognize the realities, challenges, and effects of production, distribution, and labor and choose to participate in fa

ir trade. Our vision includes a world where:

-Contributions of all workers and farmers are valued
-Human rights and human dignity are affirmed and promoted
-Fair Trade is synonymous with fair wages, fair prices, and fair practices
-Risks and rewards are equitable and shared, and this information is open and available to all stakeholders
-Information is readily available on the origin, processing, and distribution of every product
-All practices are environmentally, economically, and socially just, sustainable, and humane
-Direct trade and long-term relationships dominate the economy
-Strong local communities are the foundation of society
-Power is shared; development is community-driven and cooperative
-Cultural and indigenous rights and diversity are recognized, honored, and protected.

05/10/2020

A look at winners, finalists, and semifinalists in an Echoing Green fellowship program found that budgets of nonprofits led by whites were 24 percent bigger than those of groups led by people of color.

04/21/2020

“These are essential frontline workers. They are just as important as doctors and nurses, but they are not being treated that way."

02/08/2020
06/19/2019

Industrial, imperial food systems have reduced food to a commodity, to 'stuff' that can then be constituted in the homogenised lab.

06/12/2019

Prejudice, violence, and poverty have pushed black farmers off their land. A growing movement is calling for reparations.

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05/23/2019

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The iconic Olympia bookstore, Orca Books, will be expanding its ownership to the community as it transitions into a cooperative business model. The staff, along

Black Urban Farmer Dean Jackson from HUGS in Tacoma, WA featured!
05/19/2019

Black Urban Farmer Dean Jackson from HUGS in Tacoma, WA featured!

Black LGBTQ+ people may not be well-represented in mainstream environmental organizations, but we’re creating our own interventions that center the most marginalized among us. If you’re wondering w…

04/11/2019

Asian-Americans’ contributions to locally grown, sustainable produce have long been ignored, but these young farmers are trying to change that

"Our food system is built for profit and responds to market demand, not to human need"- Food First's newest backgrounder...
06/29/2018

"Our food system is built for profit and responds to market demand, not to human need"- Food First's newest backgrounder explains a key piece of how we might be able to create an equitable agricultural system

Click here to download this backgrounder, or view in full below. Every 4-5 years, the U.S. Farm Bill bounces back and forth between the House and Senate chambers of the U.S. legislature as progress…

"Black farmers today still struggle—particularly when it comes to holding on to their familial land under mounting finan...
06/29/2018

"Black farmers today still struggle—particularly when it comes to holding on to their familial land under mounting financial constraint and the relentless push of huge corporate farms to buy up land to plant more soybeans and corn." Read more below and shout out to our newest member Farms Farmers which makes an appearance in the article!

“The unfair treatment of black farmers went under the radar for many, many years. It was not taken up by the civil rights movement, and it should have been front and center.”

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P. O. Box 210638
Brooklyn, NY
11221

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