• FFM SPS supports Farm Fare Produce in implementing the SMETA 4-Pillar quality standard

    • 10/01/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Zimbabwe
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    From September to December 2022, the Zimbabwean company Farm Fare Produce – a family-owned horticultural business supplying fresh vegetables mostly to retailers and supermarkets – was supported by the Fit for Market SPS programme in implementing the SMETA 4-Pillar quality standard, demonstrating the company’s efforts in good practice on social compliance, environment, and business ethics. A local Zimbabwean expert was assigned to conduct a needs assessment in preparation for the upcoming audit and to train the staff on the SMETA… +
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  • Kenya: Flamingo Horticulture working towards GRASP option 2 for its outgrowers

    • 17/03/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Kenya
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    2019 - GRASP option II Assistance
    (Picture taken in 2019 before the Covid 19 pandemic.) At the end of 2020, COLEACP worked with Flamingo Horticulture Kenya Ltd, a large grower with various production sites (vegetables and flowers). A training session and pre-audit followed on from COLEACP’s previous activities with Flamingo, and should pave the way for the company’s successful social audit of over 400 smallholder growers. Throughout 2019, COLEACP supported the company with an assessment of GlobalG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practices (GRASP) compliance at outgrower… +
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  • Vert Limited – Working towards a sustainable and inclusive business

    • 26/02/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Kenya, Mangoes, News
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    During 2020, Kenyan SME Vert Limited received support from COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme to update its policies towards social compliance. Vert Limited is a Kenya-based, indigenous company specialising in growing and exporting fresh produce, targeted specifically at the European market. The company sells fine vegetables on the export market and has ventured into mango puree and dried mango. Social compliance has become an important sustainability parameter for consumers. Proof of social welfare in the form of certification has been… +
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