 | Social Impact & Special Achievements | | | Interrupcion Fairtrade is working with three 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 Frutioro is a well-established cooperative in the Valley that is actively seeking new trade channels so that they can break from their dependence on one exporter and ensure a future for their cooperative and for their future generations. 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 Argentinan economy resulted in more than 40% living in acute income poverty in rural areas. The cooperative also tries to support local public services and local arts. |
