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World Fair Trade Asia
The World Fair Trade Organization Asia working to uplift the condition of thousands of grassroots producers and workers in the poorest Asian countries. As the regional chapter of World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) former International Fair Trade Association (IFAT), WFTO ASIA provides impoverished food and crafts producers, from all over Asia, greater access to regional and inter-regional export markets. Maximizing the advantage of the established cooperation, WFTO ASIA serves as a platform wherein member-organizations share, among each other, culturally sensitive and regionally distinct strategies in the areas of skills and organizational development, technology transfer and access to information. WFTO ASIA fulfills its role as the voice of Fair Trade in Asia by promoting the standards and principles of Fair Trade among various actors at different levels of the value chain. It works to involve producers, workers, service providers, intermediaries, public sector institutions and consumers to the process of bringing about social and environmental justice to the global trading system. |
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Our Members
WFTO ASIA comprises of 90 Fair Trade Organizations, both involved in development and business, mostly from the poorest part of the continent--South and Southeast Asia across 14 developing countries: Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
Members now includes producers and producer organizations, cooperatives, intermediary marketing organizations, retailers, business development service providers, advocacy groups,NGO’s, faith-based organizations and Fair Trade country-networks. With members coming from diverse business and development backgrounds, the network fuses experience and expertise from different fields to come up with strategies addressing the challenges confronting grassroots producers in the region.
