The name says it all: Fruit At Work delivers fruit baskets to businesses. But not just any fruit: every basket is 100% fair trade and delivered by bike – wherever possible. Sustainability is embedded in the company’s DNA at every stage. An interview with the owners, Yannick and Youri Aerts.
In M’Brimbo, in the lush Agnéby-Tiassa region of Côte d’Ivoire, the Société Coopérative Équitable du Bandama (SCEB) brings together 366 producers, including 57 women, who have taken the plunge into organic farming. But there is no shortage of challenges.
On October 1, Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouatara himself announced that the farm gate cocoa price for the 2025-2026 season would be 2,800 CFA francs/kg, a substantial increase of 56% compared to the 1,800 CFA francs of last year during the same period.
While measures such as group certification offer opportunities for their producers, the regulation also poses significant challenges, including increased costs and the artificial division of some cooperatives.
Supported, among others, by Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC), the cooperation Kawa Kanzururu is reviving a coffee supply chain that was abandoned in the 1990s due to armed conflict and a lack of investors in the region.
At the foot of Mount Rwenzori, in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the cooperative Kawa Kanzururu – meaning ‘coffee of the eternal snows’ – is transforming the coffee and cocoa industry with the support of Enabel’s Trade for Development Center (TDC).
25 coaches of both Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre programme and the programme on sustainable cocoa in Ivory Coast came together in Ivory Coast in May 2025 for the coaching days.
On 5 and 19 February, the Walloon Fair Trade Awards were awarded to two schools, Actions Intégrées de Développement Hainaut-Centre and Collège Saint-Stanislas in Mons.
In a context where the European Commission wants to specify when “fair trade” terms may be used from now on, Commerce Equitable France has published
The Trade for Development Centre supports campaigns to promote more sustainable agriculture in various African countries. This is the case of the National Week of Ecological Agriculture in Benin, which aims to disseminate knowledge, good practices and innovations in agroecology.
The name says it all: Fruit At Work delivers fruit baskets to businesses. But not just any fruit: every basket is 100% fair trade and delivered by bike – wherever possible. Sustainability is embedded in the company’s DNA at every stage. An interview with the owners, Yannick and Youri Aerts.
In M’Brimbo, in the lush Agnéby-Tiassa region of Côte d’Ivoire, the Société Coopérative Équitable du Bandama (SCEB) brings together 366 producers, including 57 women, who have taken the plunge into organic farming. But there is no shortage of challenges.
On October 1, Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouatara himself announced that the farm gate cocoa price for the 2025-2026 season would be 2,800 CFA francs/kg, a substantial increase of 56% compared to the 1,800 CFA francs of last year during the same period.
While measures such as group certification offer opportunities for their producers, the regulation also poses significant challenges, including increased costs and the artificial division of some cooperatives.
Supported, among others, by Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre (TDC), the cooperation Kawa Kanzururu is reviving a coffee supply chain that was abandoned in the 1990s due to armed conflict and a lack of investors in the region.
At the foot of Mount Rwenzori, in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the cooperative Kawa Kanzururu – meaning ‘coffee of the eternal snows’ – is transforming the coffee and cocoa industry with the support of Enabel’s Trade for Development Center (TDC).
25 coaches of both Enabel’s Trade for Development Centre programme and the programme on sustainable cocoa in Ivory Coast came together in Ivory Coast in May 2025 for the coaching days.
On 5 and 19 February, the Walloon Fair Trade Awards were awarded to two schools, Actions Intégrées de Développement Hainaut-Centre and Collège Saint-Stanislas in Mons.
In a context where the European Commission wants to specify when “fair trade” terms may be used from now on, Commerce Equitable France has published
The Trade for Development Centre supports campaigns to promote more sustainable agriculture in various African countries. This is the case of the National Week of Ecological Agriculture in Benin, which aims to disseminate knowledge, good practices and innovations in agroecology.
