Denise Nzeyimana and Adélard Nkeshimana run IDEP, a company producing sunflower oil in Burundi. Since 2017, the company has received coaching from the Trade Development Centre. A look back at an entrepreneurial experience and the impressive progress the company has made.
Niki De Schryver found that many people want to buy sustainable clothing but don’t know how. That’s why she launched COSH!
After two years of coaching with the consultant Dominique Derom, the results are extremely positive for the Yeyasso cooperative. “We have evolved a lot,” confides its director Yeo Yessongbananan Moussa, and, to say the least, it shows!
During the annual Belgian Fair Trade Week in 2019, Sri Lanka’s enthusiastic Ambassador in Belgium brought together producers from Sri Lanka and potential Belgian buyers in Brussels. This event is a first step.
Your favorite chocolate’s cocoa is produced a long way from here. Cocoa is grown by producers such as Djakaridja Bitie, a representative of the Cocoa producers’ cooperative ECAM in Cöte d’Ivoire. ECAM is often showcased as a fair trade model in Cöte d’Ivoire. We take a closer look at the steps they took. Christine Englebert of Enabel’s Trade for Development (TDC) has coached this cooperative since 2017.
Chloé Mikolajczak is the coordinator of Fashion Revolution Belgium, the Belgian branch of the international movement aiming for a more ethically and environmentally sustainable fashion industry. She talks with us about the roots of the movement, its transforming strength and the challenges that brands face.
According to Sandra Rothenberger, marketing professor at Solvay Brussels School, ethical sneakers should follow the path of organic food but taking the fast track.
Jean-François Delvaulx came up with the idea for Emotion Planet on a trip with friends to Morocco. But before that he was also thrown into Ecuador and was totally under the spell of Africa. Today, he offers travel ‘on a human scale’ in about fifteen countries on four different continents.
The small coffee producers in Guatemala guarantee a fair income and offer consumers in the North a high quality product: this is the double challenge of Café Chorti, a fair trade initiative which guarantees that the coffee is delivered directly to our cup.
Kombucha is an age-old elixir with healing properties. Thylbert, a company based in Beernem in Belgium, has been marketing the drink for more than fifteen years. Everything this company does, from the choice of ingredients to the people it employs, is permeated with a desire to be sustainable and fair.
