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The Fairtrade premium — a fixed surcharge on top of the product price that is earmarked for joint investments — has been paid to this cooperative. The affiliated villages then decide together how this premium will be used. With multiple communities and shared responsibility, this requires careful coordination. Every expenditure must be widely supported.
The members decided to invest the premium in the purchase of goats. Each community receives one goat. Ownership remains with the cooperative, while the villagers are allowed to use the goats' produce, such as milk.
The choice is practical and locally relevant. Goats provide direct nutritional value, create additional income opportunities and increase the resilience of households, while collective ownership strengthens cohesion within the cooperative.
The overseas grape season starts in mid-December, but planning begins now. Demand for organic grapes remains strong and our growers need early visibility on the volumes they can reserve for fixed programmes. By aligning programmes in advance, we can secure organic volumes more effectively and are also in a stronger position to offer competitive pricing.
Along the Orange River in South Africa’s Northern Cape lies Carpe Diem, a long-standing and trusted partner for our organic grapes. Owner Gog van der Colff took over the family business in 2000 and made the deliberate decision to switch to organic farming in 2006. What began as a step that not everyone was initially convinced by has developed into a progressive organic farm producing grapes, pecans and raisins.
El Niño is clearly affecting the South American mango season this year. Higher temperatures and unusual rainfall patterns are disrupting flowering, making availability and harvest timing less predictable.
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