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gebana Brasil has, together with the Dutch NGO Solidaridad, achieved the first Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) certification of smallholder farmers in South America.
13. December 2013
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We were delighted: in September the weather was completely on our side. It rained in the oases around Kebili, where gebana Maghreb is and where we get our dates. That means nice juicy dates! The rain complements the irrigation
25. October 2013
Today, Friday, October 18, the Banana Women once again walked through the streets of Frauenfeld. Together with their successor organizations gebana and terrafair, they reviewed 40 years of Fair Trade and demanded more justice in Fair Trade:
18. October 2013
40 years ago our founders, the Banana Women, asked people on the street: Have you ever wondered why bananas are so cheap? A lot has happened since: the courageous women have become a nationwide movement.
8. October 2013
When Akos Lukacs, an engineer at the Ökozentrum Langenbruck, joined a project for drying facilities in Africa, the original aim was to replace the previously used energy source, gas, with solar energy.
14. August 2013
“There is confusion, resignation and frustration in the West Bank,” says Ruedi Stadelmann from the olive oil campaign, who has just returned from Palestine.
3. July 2013
We are very pleased to present our new almond varieties: salted and smoked almonds. These products are especially close to our hearts because we recently source the almonds from gebana Maghreb in Kebili, Tunisia.
21. May 2013
In July the only organic and Fairtrade soy producer in Latin America faced collapse. After large losses due to contamination by conventional pesticides, lenders had cut off credit. Thanks to a wave of solidarity
5. November 2012
Our cashew production has a major impact in Burkina Faso: the elaborate processing alone creates 100 jobs at gebana Afrique. But it also has negative aspects: the nut shell — after all 4/5 of the weight of the raw nut
25. September 2012
“The coffee for your daily uprising” is the slogan of Café RebelDía. That sounds good, but where does this rebellious tone come from?
24. August 2012
Pesticide residues made the organic soy of hundreds of organic farmers in southern Brazil unsellable two years ago. While their buyer, gebana Brasil, was economically recovering from the losses at that time, the financiers
6. August 2012
Ten years ago gebana sent products to end customers by mail for the first time. The aim was to use the additional income to support partners at origin and to stabilize the company financially. Stefan Lanz and Ursula Brunner recall the
14. June 2012
The Israeli government wants to dismantle solar and wind installations that supply electricity to the poorest Palestinian villages.
14. June 2012
Macadamias usually grow on plantations – not in Kenya’s Taita Hills. There, around 280 farming families grow the evergreen trees in a remote and hard-to-reach region in the south of the country.
14. June 2012
Vanilla is prized, popular and the livelihood of many producers in the Global South. In northeast Madagascar, more than 1,000 families grow organic vanilla near the Mananara-Masoala Biosphere Reserve.
21. February 2012
In Brazil, gebana has been working for years on developing mechanical — meaning biological — weed control. Now, colleagues and smallholder farmers in Capanema are celebrating their first successes.
14. February 2012
That gebana AG still exists today, 10 years after its founding in 1998, is not a matter of course.
8. November 2011
Like many tropical fruits, mangoes are now found on almost every continent. However, they originally come from the Indomalayan region. Botanically, mango trees are related to pistachios and cashew nuts.
8. November 2011
César Colussi is Managing Director and partner of gebana Brasil, which was founded in September 2002 in collaboration with him. The now 45-year-old is from Capanema and is the father of two daughters.
8. November 2011
The current economic crisis is also affecting gebana. In response to turmoil on international financial markets, banks and financial institutions have significantly tightened their lending policies.
8. November 2011
On Monday, 19 May 2008, a portrait of Ursula Brunner, the founding mother of gebana and an activist for fair trade, appeared in the NZZ.
8. November 2011