On the 20th anniversary of gebana as a trading company we decided to stop using the word ‘fair’ in future. Read about what led to this decision and precisely why we want to work even harder for fair trade as a result.
Gerold Suter from the Swiss chocolate company Max Felchlin visited Togo in November. It was his first visit after about 3 years – and an intense week full of surprises...
After almost a year of talking about moving to Westafrica, we are finally there! This is just the beginning of an adventure and there is already so much to say.
Over 90% of cashew nuts from West Africa are transported to Asia for processing instead of doing so locally and sending them directly to the customers. Though this may make sense economically, it is highly problematic in many other ways!
After a successful harvest in 2017-2018 and a significant increase in volumes, we had to detect pesticides in our warehouse during the organic inspection in Europe.
After a terrible harvest in 2015/2016 due to lack of rain, last year's harvest was great. In 2017/2018 it is just.. OK!
In 2000, gebana AG was looking for dried mangos for a chocolate bar. We found them in Burkina Faso, and just a short while later we were in the dried mango business ourselves. In 2006 we founded gebana Afrique.
Social and ecological considerations are are central aspects of our work. For this reason, we measured our sustainability targets numerically for the first time in 2016.
The date harvest will soon start in the oases of southern Tunisia. It marks the beginning of a very exciting time.
We ourselves say that we operate in particularly difficult regions of the world. But what does that actually mean?
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