Compagnie Fruitière is the main producer and exporter of fruit from the African, Caribbean and Pacific region, mainly bananas and pineapples, produced on its farms in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
Compagnie Fruitière is also the world’s leading producer of certified fairtrade bananas. Compagnie Fruitière employs over 20,000 people, with 97% of them in Africa.
Compagnie Fruitiere is always looking at solutions to improve the working and living conditions of all workers, to increase the number of women working with CF and also to retain the ones already within the CF workforce.
The Foundation for Agrarian Reform Cooperatives in Mindanao (FARMCOOP) is a grassroots not-for-profit organization engaged in organising and providing support services to farmers’ cooperatives.
They serve over 6,000 farmers in more than 20 cooperatives, owning more than 10,000 hectares of land, where they produce various fresh or processed agricultural products for thelocal and global markets.
GALS is a community-led empowerment methodology based on underlying principles of social and gender justice, inclusion and mutual respect.
GALS uses participatory processes and diagram tools to enable household members to negotiate their needs and interests to find gender-equitable solutions in livelihoods.
Golden Exotics Limited (GEL) are working in partnership with the International Union of Foodworkers Africa (IUF) and Banana Link to improve working conditions for women on their 2000 hectare Fairtrade certified banana plantation in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Alongside this, the project is also seeking to attract more women from the local community to work on GEL’s expanding organic banana farm.
