Our Fairtrade Sources
Fairtrade and Organic hunza apricots and walnuts from Pakistan Mountain Fruits.
The Agah Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) Dried Fruit Project (DFP). The AKRSP is a charitable foundation which works to improve the livelihood of people living in the higher areas of the Karakorum Mountains in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The pure highland environment of the Karakorum Mountains, where fruit is grown at between 4,500 - 9,500 feet during long summer days, fed by glacial meltwater, creates fruits with extraordinarily beautiful taste & flavour. The Hunza apricot is known the world over for its bright and tangy flavour, which is rich and full of complexity.
Fairtrade and Organic mangoes and cashew nuts from Burkina Faso from the Association WOUOL
A development association of 2000 rural members of which 70% are women. Many of their farmer members cultivate mango trees. WOUOL purchases thousands of tonnes of fresh fruits from the farmers and dries them in their drying stations. The vast majority of people working in the drying stations are women.
Other than mangoes, WOUOL farmers also produce large quantities of cashew nuts which WOUOL shell, dry and grade for export as well. Again it is mainly women who benefit from this paid employment.
Mango brings three fold benefit to the members of WOUOL. The farmers gain, the women gain, and then there is the Fairtrade social premium too which benefits the whole community
The Agah Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) Dried Fruit Project (DFP). The AKRSP is a charitable foundation which works to improve the livelihood of people living in the higher areas of the Karakorum Mountains in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The pure highland environment of the Karakorum Mountains, where fruit is grown at between 4,500 - 9,500 feet during long summer days, fed by glacial meltwater, creates fruits with extraordinarily beautiful taste & flavour. The Hunza apricot is known the world over for its bright and tangy flavour, which is rich and full of complexity.
Fairtrade and Organic mangoes and cashew nuts from Burkina Faso from the Association WOUOL
A development association of 2000 rural members of which 70% are women. Many of their farmer members cultivate mango trees. WOUOL purchases thousands of tonnes of fresh fruits from the farmers and dries them in their drying stations. The vast majority of people working in the drying stations are women.
Other than mangoes, WOUOL farmers also produce large quantities of cashew nuts which WOUOL shell, dry and grade for export as well. Again it is mainly women who benefit from this paid employment.
Mango brings three fold benefit to the members of WOUOL. The farmers gain, the women gain, and then there is the Fairtrade social premium too which benefits the whole community
