The Cooperative Grocer, the only trade magazine for natural food co-ops, featured an article on domestic fair trade and the work of DFTA and its members in the September/October 2009 edition.

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in Spring 2009 edition of PAN Magazine
^{by Chela Vázquez}

In the past 40 years, nearly four million small farmers have gone out of business in North America while big agribusiness firms have continued to thrive. Since 1995, under the North America Free Trade Agreement, there has been a 40% decrease in commodity prices paid to farmers while U.S. consumers have seen food costs soar 22%.

Against this background, more than 70 activists representing 41 organizations—farmers, farmworkers, traders, processors, retailers and fair-food advocates— gathered for the second annual meeting of the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA) on December 7–8, 2008, at the Organic Valley Dairy in La Farge, Wisconsin.

by Grace Cox

November 30, 2007: more than 50 people met in La Farge, Wisconsin, to participate in the founding meeting of the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA). This historic meeting, hosted by Organic Valley, was the result of several years of planning by the Domestic Fair Trade working group, a small group of stakeholders who developed the draft principles of Domestic Fair Trade and spawned the Local Fair Trade Network pilot project in the Midwest this past summer. (See CG #127. November-December 2006.)