This decision was the result of a long process of reflection regarding the environmental and economic sustainability of many of these products. In fact, we think that organic agriculture must necessarily be socially, economically and ecologically sustainable. These principles have guided us for 30 years to be cooperative between organic agricultural producers, for the sustainable development of the territory and of our community.
The decision
We have therefore eliminated counter-season productions (pears and apples from South America, kiwis and oranges from the southern hemisphere); for “exotic” productions, but a normal component of our diet, such as bananas, we decided that they must also come from the fair trade market (although aware of all the logistical and technical difficulties for smaller productions, such as pineapple, peanuts and many others).
Products, on the other hand, such as ginger and those mentioned above, no longer have the marginality of the past, on the contrary, they are increasingly in demand. But our distribution work, in terms of volumes and structure, forced us to rely on some professional importer, also completely delegating knowledge of the social, economic and ecological supply chain concerned.
In other words, we were unable to guarantee the social, economic and environmental sustainability of these products, other than organic certification alone, which is necessary, but limited.
This is how we came to interrupt, in 2014, the marketing of exotic foreign products, waiting to be able to guarantee widespread knowledge of the production chain and to be able to offer you a product that is organic but also healthy from an environmental and social point of view.
The resumption of commercialization
After a year of analysis and investigations in the marketing of organic foreign products, we have chosen to work in collaboration with subjects able to transmit live information to us and to grow with us on models of “sustainable trade”.
Our choice therefore fell on Dr. Nicola Manno, an ethnobiologist and agroecologist from Padua, with a long experience in Peru, and of FRESH2EAT SRL, a new import company, based in Parma.
From this collaboration comes the offer of Peruvian origin that you can see on the current price list, on:
- Organic fresh GINGER
- Organic fresh TURMERIC
- WHITE, RED, BLACK QUINOA AND ORGANIC MIX — FAIRTRADE
- ORGANIC MANGO — FAIRTRADE