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WFTO Global

   The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), formerly known as IFAT (International Federation for Alternative Trade), is a global authority on Fair Trade. It is the global representative body of over 350 organisations committed to 100% Fair Trade. Its goal is to enable producers to improve their livelihoods and communities through Fair Trade. It does this by delivering market access for its worldwide membership through policy, advocacy, campaigning, marketing and monitoring. WFTO represents Fair Traders from grassroots through to the G8 and is the authentic voice of Fair Trade, having driven the movement for 20 years.

   WFTO operates in 70 countries across 5 regions; Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North American and the Pacific Rim, with elected global and regional boards. It is the only global network whose members represent the Fair Trade chain from production to sale. The WFTO was born out of the International Fair Trade Association on 15 October 2008 as a considered response to the extraordinary issues of our time: the failure of global bodies to impact the imbalance in trade, the failure of governments and businesses to tackle climate change and the failure of the financial system.

   WFTO members are organisations differentiated by their 100% Fair Trade commitment to eradicate poverty through sustainable economic development; pioneering social and environmental policy and practice and continual reinvestment in marginalised artisans, farmers and producer communities in some of the most fragile places on earth.

   110 million artisans, farmers, growers, producers, and supporters driving Fair Trade through cooperatives, networks, brands and businesses with a 100% Fair Trade commitment delivering US$2.2 billion in Fair Trade sales worldwide.

   Fundamentally, the World Fair Trade Organization is a global community of pioneering and passionate change-makers, responsible for the development of the sustainable Fair Trade economy, for the greater good.

   To learn more about the history of the WFTO and the Fair Trade movement, see the Global WFTO website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WFTO Global Board during the celebration of the WFTO Global AGM 2009 in Nepal