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Don’t forget, within a couple of week it is Valentine’s Day! Common symbols are hearts, red roses and Cupid… We would like to add our delicious organic dates, passion fruit & more!

Last season, most European retailers shied away from it: putting Living Wage Mangoes up for sale. But German and Austrian shopkeepers were braver: "So it costs a little more, but the workers in Africa receive a Living Wage for it? We're in!" Luckily, consumers turned out to be enthusiastic. More than 100 tonnes of organic Living Wage mangoes were sold through only a few points of sale. And the result: the amount raised now closes 40% of the wage gap of Zongo Adama's warehouse workers in Burkina Faso. Eosta now has new plans for Living Wage avocados.

When the first shipment of Colombian limes from "Persian Limes" arrived at organic fruit specialist Eosta in Waddinxveen last week, they came with a very nice surprise. On the 800 boxes of fresh green limes, almost a hundred postcards were stuck with personal messages from the farm workers of the valley of the river Poblanco. For them, the first shipment of Colombian limes to the Netherlands means a fresh new start for the Colombian countryside, after decades of poverty and guerrilla warfare.

When the first shipment of Colombian limes from "Persian Limes" arrived at organic fruit specialist Eosta in Waddinxveen last week, they came with a very nice surprise. On the 800 boxes of fresh green limes, almost a hundred postcards were stuck with personal messages from the farm workers of the valley of the river Poblanco. For them, the first shipment of Colombian limes to the Netherlands means a fresh new start for the Colombian countryside, after decades of poverty and guerrilla warfare.

For 30 years, Volkert Engelsman has been importing and distributing organic food worldwide. His experience: Only when abuse is clearly identified do customers take responsibility, because the price war is raging in the organic sector as well. He wrote this opinion piece for German magazine Ökologie & Landbouw.

This autumn, German retail magazine Lebensmittel Praxis published a special on social sustainability in the food sector. Volkert Engelsman was interviewed about Eosta's social policy and Living Wage campaign. Eosta is the first supplier in Europe to bring the Living Wage concept to the store shelves, by selling Living Wage mango’s. Read the entire interview by Bettina Röttig here:

Eosta has become the first SME fresh produce supplier in the world to carry out a Living Wage assessment for a supplier. Eosta calculated the Living Wage gap for the workers of its mango supplier Fruiteq in Burkina Faso. The assessment shows that an additional cost of 10 cents per kilo of mangoes would suffice to close the pay gap for all 199 employees. Together with customers and consumers, Eosta will put this process in motion.