La misión del Consejo por Comida Justa (FFSC, por sus siglas en inglés) es monitorear el desarrollo de una industria agrícola sostenible que promueva los derechos humanos de las y los trabajadores agrícolas, los intereses a largo plazo de las y los productores y las preocupaciones éticas con relación a la cadena de suministro de las empresas minoristas de alimentos, a través de la implementación del Programa de Comida Justa.

Fourteen years since its inception, the Fair Food Program has entered into a phase of truly dramatic expansion: During 2024 and 2025, the program’s protections will reach thousands more farmworkers, at over 30 additional farms in 13 new states. This accelerated growth was prompted in large part by a new initiative designed by the US Department of Agriculture, launched in 2024, to expand the H-2A, or “guestworker” program, while also protecting those workers from abuse. As part of that pilot program, the USDA designated the FFP as the highest – or “platinum” – level of human rights protection for US farmworkers and offered farms the highest level of financial subsidies for joining the FFP, to protect guestworkers in their operations.

By 2025, the FFP will be present in at least half the states in the continental U.S. and will also be operating in at least two additional countries, Chile and South Africa. The program’s international growth, along with the possibility of expanding to still more countries in the years ahead, is supported by the International Labor Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. As a result, workers and growers in the flower industry in those countries are already benefiting from FFP implementation, with broader expansion into the fruit (South Africa) and salmon (Chile) industries on the runway.

El FFSC está muy entusiasmado con estas alianzas de colaboración que se han iniciado con estos nuevos productores y la posibilidad de futuro crecimiento en otros estados y países donde las y los productores estén interesados en adoptar los beneficios y las protecciones únicas que ofrece el Programa de Comida Justa.