SAVE THE DATE
DFTA Annual Meeting
December 11th-13th, 2013
Winter Garden, Florida
Hosted by Farmworker Association of Florida/La Asociacion Campesina de Florida
Need Travel Assistance? Please Contact, Colette Cosner, for a travel assistance application form. Help us keep the annual meeting as affordable as possible by contributing to our Annual Meeting Travel Assistance Fund. We need your help to ensure all voices are at the table. Click here to donate! |
Member Dues
Have you paid your DFTA 2013 dues yet? If not, please send checks to:
Domestic Fair Trade Association
220 2nd Ave South Unit #61
Seattle, WA 98104
Questions? Contact Colette Cosner, [email protected] |
Member Recruitment
One of the strengths of DFTA is our ability to bring together diverse organizations under a common vision and mission.
We are a growing organization but we need your help.
Please contact our membership committee at [email protected] to find out more about membership or to recommend another organization for membership.
See a list of our current members here
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Dear DFTA community,
Summer is upon us with its usual busyness and DFTA members are no exception. Here are a couple highlights and articles to inspire and inform us for the work ahead. - Farmworker Convocation on Domestic Fair Trade
- Immigration Reform and Food Sovereignty
- Fair Trade USA's Labeling Policy
- Free Trade versus Food Democracy
Sincerely, Colette Cosner Farmworker Convocation on Domestic Fair Trade 
On May 18th -19 farmworkers from across the U.S. gathered in Bellingham, WA for the 2nd Annual National Farmworker Convocation. Hosted by Community to Community Development, and facilitated in partnership with Centro Campesino, the gathering served as an opportunity for dialogue and reflection on the future of domestic fair trade and the role of farmworkers in creating a more just, healthy and sustainable agricultural system. Read more about the convocation here.
Food Sovereignty and Immigration Reform
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The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 is a massive and complex piece of legislation with dramatic implications for anyone who cares about fair, healthy, and sustainable food and farming systems.
authors Navina Khann, Joann Lo and Catherine Tactaquin draw the connections between food, immigration, and worker justice while analyzing the current immigration reform proposals. Read more here
Fair Trade USA's Draft Labeling Policy
In April, Fair Trade USA released a new draft labeling policy for multi-ingredient products, proposing to maintain a threshold requirement of just 20% fair trade ingredients while eliminating the requirement that all ingredients available as fair trade must be included in fair trade form ("commercial availability") and without adopting a requirement to disclose the percentage of actual fair trade ingredients included in the product. Click here to read Fair World Project's response.
Free Trade Versus Food Democracy, by Jim Harkness, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
There has been a quiet revolution going around the world, as communities and nations retake control of their food systems. In the U.S., more people are taking a look at processed foods at the supermarket and opting instead for healthier choices, grown locally with fewer pesticides...Unfortunately, U.S. trade policy seems wedded to a discredited notion of how we should get our food and who should benefit. Read More here. |
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Domestic Fair Trade Association
22o 2nd Ave South Unit #61 Seattle, WA 98104~www.thedfta.org~
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