 | Certified Operator (Certification Applicant) | | | Asociacion Civil Interrupción - Cooperativa Frutícola Neuquén | | |
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| Place, Country | | | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
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| Type of Operation | | | Farmer Group | ||
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| Details on Operation | | | Apples Pears Supplier Group | ||
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| Certified Products | | | Fruits: Fresh Apples Pears Cherries | |  |
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| Certification Programme | | | IMO Social & FairTrade Certification | ||
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| Social Issues (Smallholder Groups) |
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| Chapter | | | Content of the IMO Social & FairTrade Programme | | Rating | | Norm |
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| 3.1.1a | Transparent Administration and Relation with Farmers FARMER GROUPS | 19 | 16 | ||||
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| 3.1.2 | Pricing and Producer Payments | 15 | 14 | ||||
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| 3.1.3 | Non-discrimination and Gender Aspects | 10 | 10 | ||||
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| 3.1.4 | Internal Control System | 17 | 24 | ||||
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| 3.2.1 | Child Labour and Young Workers | 19 | 16 | ||||
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| 3.2.2 | Working Conditions Producer Farms | 43 | 44 | ||||
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| 3.3.1 | Basic Labour Rights Group Staff | 31 | 32 | ||||
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| 3.3.2 | Employment Conditions Group Staff | 32 | 32 | ||||
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| Total Score Social Issues (Smallholder Groups) | 186 | ||||||
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| Minimum Points for Certification Social Issues (Smallholder Groups) | 178 | ||||||
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| Points Reached Last Year (Social Issues, Smallholder Groups): - | |||||||
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| FairTrade Issues |
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| Chapter | | | Content of the IMO Social & FairTrade Programme | | Rating | | Norm |
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| 4.2.1 | Trade Relations | 17 | 20 | ||||
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| 4.2.2 | Additional FairTrade Obligations Producer Groups | 25 | 28 | ||||
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| Total Score FairTrade Issues | 42 | ||||||
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| Minimum Points for Certification FairTrade Issues | 45 | ||||||
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| Points Reached Last Year (FairTrade Issues): - | |||||||
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| Environmental Issues |
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| Chapter | | | Content of the IMO Environmental Programme | | Rating | | Norm |
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| 3.4.1 | Internal Monitoring Environmental Aspects | 4 | 4 | ||||
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| 3.4.2 | Environmental Performance Producers | 20 | 20 | ||||
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| 3.4.3 | Environmental Performance Processing | 22 | 22 | ||||
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| Total Score Environmental Issues | 46 | ||||||
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| Minimum Points for Certification Environmental Issues | 36 | ||||||
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| Points Reached Last Year (Environmental Issues): - | |||||||
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| Social Impact |
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| Social Impact & Special Achievements | | | Interrupcion Fairtrade is working with two smallscale farmers cooperatives in Argentina to provide them with a new market opportunity, a more transparent trade relationship and social capital to invest in the well-being of their cooperatives and their workers. Cooperativa de Neuquen with its farmers is one of the oldest cooperatives in the Valley. Having endured for so many years, this cooperative has set an example of what it means to pool farmer resources to access needed capital and negotiate better terms with industry traders for its members. Their work is helping preserve small and medium farms, which are disappearing due to consolidation by foreign-owned companies that move benefits from trade out of the local area. The cooperative has the goal of converting their entire production to organic in the next 10 years. The participating farms are medium size, relatively wealthy farmers in comparison with smallholder farmers in developing countries, and hence additional fairtrade focus in this group is on the well-being of agricultural workers on the farms in addition to the support of genuine small scale traditional agriculture in the Argentinan context. Agricultural workers are a clearly very marginalized social group in the region and also in international context since the drastic problems on the Argentine economy resulted in more than 40% living in acute income poverty in rural areas. | ||||
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| Date of Certification |
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| First | | | 10.01.2008 | ||||
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| Last Update | | | 17.04.2009 | ||||
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