We usually link our importation to initiatives that are ecologically or socially sound or that carry a strong human dimension. Here are two examples, one in Turkey, the other one in Sri Lanka.
Ever since it was founded, Agro Sourcing has been supporting an organic fair trade program to support organic farmers.
This program, called “Happy village”, concerns 3000 ha of lands, cultivated according to organic principles, by 750 producers, in some 141 villages all around Turkey.
In May 2008, our company has been certified ‘BioFairTrade’ by Ecocert, according to the standards of the French Association ‘BioEquitable’, for our Turkish dried fruits. We are the first company to get an independant Fair Trade certification for Turkish dried fruits.
FOREST GARDEN PRODUCTS : Protecting the biodiversity of the Sri Lankan tropical rainforest.
Sri Lanka is an island blessed with luxurious vegetation typical from equatorial climates. Unfortunately, the very existence of that breathtakingly beautiful and rich primary rainforest can be threatened by local policies promoting intensive agriculture. The implications of monoculture and modern agricultural practice in Sri Lanka for biodiversity and species diversity are devastating.
Agro Sourcing supports a more traditional agricultural practice, environmentally sound, based on gardens of small producers. We actively support The Analogue Forest /Forest Garden concepts, which provides an answer to the problems facing agriculture and environment in Sri Lanka today. Our producers create small gardens, to enhance biodiversity and sustainability at the local micro level of their own pieces of land.
The producers who have implemented that model receive technical support and financial assistance to enhance biodiversity in their own garden. An independent third party now certifies the whole process.
Our last contribution to safeguarding this biodiversity is to import a large variety of tropical goods from this country: exotic fruit juices, coconut milk, dried fruits and cashew nuts.