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A holistic approach in support of family farming in South Africa
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Family farms in the Republic of Serbia
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Overcoming the shameful paradox in Madagascar’s vanilla sector
About the author
Anselm Iwundu is Executive Director of Fairfood International. He joined the
advocacy organization in 2008 and was the Director of Research at Fairfood before
his current appointment in August 2011. Prior to joining Fairfood, Anselm worked
in the field of environment and sustainability for various sectors including non-profit,
energy, oil and gas, mining and banking. He has also consulted on environment and
sustainability issues for Dutch and international NGOs, companies and municipal
governments in Africa and Latin America.
Notes
The main source for this article is a research report by Fairfood International
published on 25 February 2014, titled Recipe for Change, the Need for Improved
Livelihoods of Vanilla Farmers in Madagascar. Fairfood conducted field-level research
in Madagascar’s Sambava region using interviews, surveys and focus group meetings.
Further, big multinationals sourcing vanilla were given the opportunity to comment
on the findings during Fairfood’s fair hearing process.
wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Vanilla-report.pdf, Accessed February 25, 2014
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7. Fairfood is an international non-profit organization. Fairfood’s mission is to
improve the socioeconomic conditions of vulnerable people, such as smallholder
farmers, workers (especially women) and consumers in our food system and to
ensure the sustainable production and consumption of food, by influencing the
policies of global food and beverage companies and governments. One of the
sectors Fairfood is currently focusing on is vanilla in Madagascar.
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Slovenia – where family farming underpinsnature and strengthens local economies
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