NEWS
The Ethical Trade Forums are looking for companies and professionals to help advance the living wage section of the Producer Support Working Group
The Ethical Trade Forums are expanding the scope of their recently created Producer Support Working Group with the launch of a specific section dedicated to living wages, which complements the already active work on absenteeism management. This new section was created in response to the growing importance of living wages in social audits and, in particular, to the need for companies to understand how to address requirements such as selecting a living wage benchmark, analyzing the gap between current compensation and that benchmark, and developing improvement plans. The purpose of the Working Group is to provide companies in the agri-food sector with practical tools and criteria to address this challenge by sharing experiences, analyzing the different benchmarks and methodologies available, and developing shared resources that can be useful to organizations. The group will operate from a collaborative and methodologically neutral approach, without establishing its own living wage or...
The Ethical Trade Forums have updated the Guiding Principles Checklist with a comprehensive review of the Health and Safety principle
The voluntary self-assessment tool for companies in the agri-food sector has released a new version, which strengthens the occupational health and safety section with new legal references and regulatory comparisons, while the rest of the principles remain unchanged pending future revisions. The Guiding Principles and Due Diligence Working Group of the Ethical Trade...
The Ethical Trade Forums offer App Foros to NGOs supporting the extraordinary regularization process
The Ethical Trade Forums have sent a notice to several non-governmental organizations and social entities that are supporting migrants during the extraordinary regularization process established by Royal Decree 316/2026. The goal is to promote the App Foros as a free tool that can be useful for people who are accessing legal employment in Spain for the first time...
Getting to Know Each Other 2.0 Project: new video
The Getting to Know Each Other 2.0 project aims to bring the Association closer to its members by sharing its most relevant milestones, roles, operating methods, and traditions of ETFA culture through written and audiovisual media. To this end, interviews are conducted with people in key roles and representatives of stakeholders to share their stories, motivations,...
Cajamar – Paiporta Open Day
We now have the schedule for the second 2026 Open Day, visiting companies with best practices in sustainability, to be held on September 16. On this occasion, we will travel to Paiporta, Valencia, home to the Cajamar Experience Center, which has been dedicated to research and experimentation in Mediterranean horticulture and fruit growing since 1994. Its work is...
Ethical Trade Forums share lessons learned from ten years of collaborative work at SafeHabitus webinar
On 18 June, the Ethical Trade Forums participated in the international webinar organized by the European SafeHabitus project entitled “Migrant agricultural workers and ethical trade in Europe: responsible purchasing practices, due diligence, and consumer awareness”. The webinar brought together representatives from social organizations, academic institutions and...
The Ethical Trade Forums launch a new Working Group on absenteeism management in the fruit and vegetable sector
The Ethical Trade Forums have launched a new Working Group dedicated to the management of absenteeism in the fruit and vegetable sector. The initiative aims to bring together industry professionals to analyze this challenge and develop practical and applicable solutions. The group has been created to share experiences, identify the real causes of absenteeism and...
More than 140 professionals from the fruit and vegetable sector meet in Granada to discuss the role of communication in the well-being of workers
On June 11, the Hotel Abades Nevada Palace in Granada hosted a new edition of the International Meeting of the Ethical Trade Forums, under the theme “Impact on employee welfare of a good communication strategy and practices inside and outside the company”. The event brought together 146 participants from production companies, retailers, unions, consulting firms, and...
Berrynest: new implementation of Canal Foros
We continue to implement Canal Foros, the grievance and complaint management mechanism created by the Ethical Trade Forums specifically for the agri-food sector in Spain. On May 28 and 29, we visited different locations in Huelva, where Berrynest—a company dedicated to the production of organic berries and citrus fruits—has its facilities. At the warehouse and farms...
Online Seminar on Housing and forced Labor
The third online seminar of 2026, organized by the Ethical Trade Forums, took place on May 26, with 73 participants, and addressed the challenge of “Staff housing, forced labor, and informal settlements: the impact on workers’ well-being”. The first presentation was given by Angélica Barrera (Stronger Together), who spoke about the definition of forced labor, its...
ETF at the Sectoral Roundtable on Employment and Development, ERACIS+
The Ethical Trade Forums participated as guests on May 19 in the 7th Sectoral Roundtable on Employment and Development, held in Roquetas de Mar (Almería), which was attended by 34 participants. The Sectoral Roundtable on Employment and Development is a space for coordination and community participation promoted within the framework of the ERACIS+ strategy...
A new permanent collaborator joins ETFA
We are pleased to announce that a new collaborator has joined the Ethical Trade Forums Association. We welcome Hanse Lutra, a Spanish consulting and management firm specializing in sustainability within the agri-food sector. Its primary focus is on analyzing and optimizing processes throughout the entire value chain—from cultivation and processing to...
Presentation by the ETF at Cooperativa La Palma
On May 12, the Ethical Trade Forums participated in the general meeting of Cooperativa La Palma. This cooperative, which has been in existence for 51 years, brings together more than 700 producer members and manages 850 hectares of crops, with its main facilities located in the province of Granada. During the assembly, attended by nearly 200 small-scale producer...