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16. March 2016
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Growth is important for gebana – but why? CEO Adrian Wiedmer provides answers.
16. March 2016
Recently I led a training on FairTrade certification in Benin. Participants were representatives of two large cashew producer organizations and local processing companies.
16. March 2016
Fresh pineapples are a challenging product; we noticed that during our first imports.
16. March 2016
Founding a cocoa cooperative and gebana Togo comes with major challenges for both the farmers and gebana. But it’s worth it: the quantity of exclusive organic and fair-trade cocoa from Togo is continuously growing.
16. March 2016
Portrait Ardiata Sawadogo My name is Ardiata Sawadogo, I am the production manager of cashew processing at gebana Afrique.
20. August 2015
Cashew processing The processing from the raw nut to the ready-to-sell kernel is extremely labor-intensive: It takes a full five days and is done entirely by hand.
12. August 2015
The cashew harvest began in February as it always does, but it soon became apparent that everything would be different this time.
6. August 2015
The cashew growers are making the most of the skyrocketing cashew prices that have come about as a result of demand from Asia, and are selling to the highest bidders — in spite of their contracts with gebana. What do the farmers themselves say about this?
6. August 2015
One of the main problems in soybean cultivation is weeds. To remove them from the fields, unwanted plants are pulled out individually with small hoes. Reworking the field must be limited due to the risk of soil erosion, especially in dry
30. July 2015
In Togo, gebana has been building a trading chain for organic cocoa for several years. A key focus of the project is training smallholder farmers and establishing and supporting the local cooperative. The cooperative is to its own B
27. June 2015
gebana AG is more than a trading company; it is a network made up of producers, trading partners, consumers, financing partners and NGOs.
15. June 2015
In Togo, gebana has been building a trading chain for organic cocoa for several years, with support from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
28. May 2015
Sepp Keil is a pioneer in organic asparagus, and it happened by chance: on a piece of land by the Danube with dry, sandy soil every cultivation attempt with other crops ended in a failed harvest. Until the organic farmer came up with the idea of growing s
27. April 2015
«Banana woman» Ursula Brunner receives the Women’s Business Award 2014 from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
24. November 2014
We are currently receiving weekly new reports of disaster from Turkey: "Even old farmers cannot remember ever having had such a bad harvest year," says Gökce Cezdogan from our processing partn
7. November 2014
“The president has just resigned, a cheer of joy echoes through the city,” described Dave Heubi, managing director of gebana Afrique, this afternoon live from Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
3. November 2014
gebana project in Tunisia: modern irrigation and alternative crops
30. October 2014
Chrysoula and Christos Stergiou have been growing organic citrus fruits since 1998. This year is the second season in which they sell the fruits directly to consumers via gebana – finally receiving fair organic prices for their first-class fruit.
30. October 2014
Marcio Alberto Challiol is responsible for production at gebana Brasil. He explains why CHEGA! was so important for organic farming in Brazil and how gebana Brasil and the organic farmers are doing today - 4 years after the Endosulfan scandal
27. May 2014
In addition to a fair price for the olive farmers, two francs per litre of olive oil sold go as a solidarity contribution to social, medical and agricultural development projects in Palestine.
26. February 2014