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In 2024, Eosta started selling the first Fairtrade organic certified avocados. This gives small-scale growers a fair chance in the avocado market. Thanks to the Fairtrade premium, they invest in their communities, including in biogas plants that offer a sustainable alternative to cooking on wood fire.
In 2024, Eosta started selling the first Fairtrade organic certified avocados. This gives small-scale growers a fair chance in the avocado market. Thanks to the Fairtrade premium, they invest in their communities, including in biogas plants that offer a sustainable alternative to cooking on wood fire.
The road to this was not without challenges. In 2023, hard work went into organising smallholder farmer groups in Kenya. Having a democratically elected board and formalising the organisation with local governments proved to be a big job, but it worked!
Despite logistical challenges due to the conflict in the Red Sea, we managed to sell a significant volume of Fairtrade avocados. As a result, growers received a better price for their fruit as well as a Fairtrade premium. This premium is used by the farmers themselves to develop their farms and the local community.
One of the first projects funded from the Fairtrade premium is the construction of micro biogas plants. These installations, placed at growers' households, enable cooking on (bio)gas. This offers a sustainable alternative to cooking on wood fire, which is still common in rural Kenya and contributes to deforestation.
Meanwhile, the certification process continues. Currently, six farmer groups are Fairtrade certified, with a total of about 250 members. Together, we thus offer a fair and sustainable alternative within the avocado market.
Contact us to discover together how we can expand this sustainable story further.
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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