Colombia’s farmers can hope again after bloody decades of civil war – but they’re not relying on politicians to help them Tim Adams Sun 25 Feb 2018 08.30 GMT (Reproduced from https://www.theguardian.com) Barrio Obrero, Santa Marta, Colombia. Photograph: Ian Berry/Magnum Photos Don José Manuel Suarez has seen some things. Father of seven and grandfather […]
Read More →The UK Government’s Ethical Trading Initiative announced earlier this month that Fyffes suspension from the ETI as a result of a complaint from Banana Link and the International Unuion of Foodworkers (IUF) would remain in force, while discussions between Fyffes and the IUF continued. In the meantime, we have continued to receive reports of anti-trade […]
Read More →Fyffes continues to prove that it is a company completely opposed to trade unions by violating all the rights that its workers legally in Costa Rica. Today, Fyffes dismissed two security officers from the sub-branch, Gerson Heberaldo Galo (General Secretary) y Olman Alexi Torres (Public Prosecutor). The sub-branch was in full development. Comrades revealed that […]
Read More →The value of banana exports also reaches an all-time high of $986 million. Productivity rises from 2,339 to 2,800 boxes per hectare per year. BY MARVIN BARQUERO S. mbarquero@nacion.com Banana growing is centred on the cantons of Sarapiquí, Pococí Siquirres, Guácimo, Matina, Limón and Talamanca on the Carribean coast, and in Parrita, Corredores and Palmar Sur […]
Read More →Albino Vargas opinion@laprensalibre.cr 986 million dollars! Yes, that’s right! Dollars! Converting it into colones, using the current exchange rate of around 566 colones to the dollar, gives us the gigantic sum of 558.076 billion colones! Or, expressed in figures: 558,076,000,000. This massive figure amounts to almost two percentage points of the country’s current Gross Domestic […]
Read More →Fyffes has sunk even lower, dismissing all security staff who had joined the Union of Workers in Agroindustry and Allied Trades (STAS) from its melon plantations. The process of organising a sub-branch of the STAS union among security staff at Melon Export SA (Melexsa), one of three of Fyffes’s subsidiaries in Honduras, had been undertaken […]
Read More →From January 23 through 25, an international mission formed by several international organizations, including the IUF, visited Honduras with the aim of verifying reports of serious violations of workers’, union and human rights committed against women employed by the melon companies owned by Fyffes, an Irish fruit multinational corporation. La Rel spoke with Alistair Smith, […]
Read More →Following the success of an innovative Customs project in the port of Antwerp for smoother imports of bio-bananas, i.e. bananas grown organically without the use of pesticides or other chemicals, a digital “bio-certificate” will be introduced EU-wide as of April 2017. A highly advanced EU pilot project was recently rolled out in the port of […]
Read More →Authorities in the northern Lao province of Bokeo suspended the operations of 18 Chinese-backed banana plantations after they discovered widespread violations of the regulations governing the use of agricultural chemicals, government officials told RFA’s Lao Service. “It has been a problem for the environment as the Chinese companies destroy the environment with their heavy use […]
Read More →“We won’t tolerated more violence” Sintraingro organized a demonstration day rejecting all types of violence against women. The General Secretary of the National Union of Workers in Agricultural Industries (SINTRAINAGRO), Adela Torres, spoke to La Rel about the action they hold on the municipality of Apartadó, as part of the International Day for the Elimination […]
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