Nieuws & releases

De verrassing was groot toen afgelopen week de eerste zending Colombiaanse limoenen van “Persian Limes” aankwam bij biologische fruitspecialist Eosta in Waddinxveen. Op de 800 dozen frisgroene limoentjes waren bijna honderd ansichtkaarten geplakt met persoonlijke boodschappen van de landarbeiders uit de vallei van de rivier Poblanco. De eerste verscheping van Colombiaanse limoenen naar Nederland betekent voor hen een nieuwe bloeiperiode voor het Colombiaanse platteland, na decennia van armoede en guerrilla-oorlog.

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.

In conjunction with Ekoplaza, Nature & More will nudge people into consuming more fruit and vegetables

Eosta, distributor of organic fruits and vegetables is proud to announce that in close cooperation with 32 retail chains in 13 countries, the company has saved more than 22 million units of unnecessary plastic packaging due to Natural Branding laser technology.

How organic is part of the solution when it comes to achieving the global goals

Ein interessanter ARD/SWR Dokumentarfilm, u.a. zu den wahren Kosten und Nutzen von der Landwirtschaft. Die industrielle Landwirtschaft verspricht hohe Erträge und billige Preise durch den Einsatz großer Maschinen und viel Chemie. Gibt es Alternativen? Welches Modell der Bewirtschaftung ist umweltfreundlich und stellt sicher, dass die Bäuerinnen und Bauern davon leben können?

Question… what is the cost of a hamburger? Go on take a guess... $1,80? No, a little more perhaps $2,20? No, wrong again, the true cost of a hamburger is around $200.

Thanks to high tech laser technology, organic fruit and vegetable specialist Eosta is able to turn a simple organic kiwi into a cheeky fruit muppet. The Nature & More Kiwi Muppets are a fun and easy way for kids to get their much needed portion of vitamins and fibers.

At Eosta we firmly believe that sustainably farmed organic products deserve to be packed in environmentally friendly material if packed at all.  Furthermore, numerous studies show that organic consumers are negative about plastic packaging.  With this in mind Eosta proudly introduces recycled paper inlay for vegetables and fruits.

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