The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) is a food certification system that aims to ensure safer and healthier food for consumers, improve working conditions for farmworkers, and be profitable for farmers, retailers, and food service providers. The core EFI program certifies the achievement of key working conditions, pesticide use, and food safety standards. It focuses on bringing everyone in the supply chain to integrate workers' voices to address the industry's most pressing issues and develop the workforce through training. The initiative also focuses on the Americas as a geographical scope. The US union United Farm Workers (UFW) was involved in the first talks to create this initiative, and two other unions - FLOC (Farm Labour Organizing Committee) and PCUN ( Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste) - joined UFW to develop this initiative, in particular its standard.
Consequently, unions hold three seats on the Board out of 15. Since EFI has a rotating chair (every two years), one or the other of these representatives has headed the initiative in the past and will head it in the future.