About Us
About Asia Fair Trade Forum
The Asia Fair Trade Forum (AFTF) comprises 88 Fair Trade organizations, working to uplift the condition of thousands of grassroots producers and workers in 12 of the poorest Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia,People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam
As the regional chapter of the International Fair Trade Association (IFAT), AFTF 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, AFTF 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.
AFTF 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.