Liberating Lives
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Truly owned by farmers: already a majority shareholder, the INC have recently purchased even more of Liberation!
Juan Bravo, President of the INC. Formed in 2007, Liberation Foods CIC has been, from the outset, a community interest company, with a mission to solely trade directly with smallholder farmers and ensure they have a prominent voice in the direction and decision-making of the company. Since then, we have been on an interesting journey of development, discovery and relationship building with numerous farming cooperatives across the world. The International Nut Cooperative (INC), also formed in 2007 by 5 smallholder farmer and gatherer Associations, has been a shareholder of Liberation from its beginnings and we have developed a profound and enduring relationship with them, the strength and importance of which most recently withstood the test of the global pandemic last year. Tomy Mathews, INC member and valued colleague said of the alliance “if there had been more relationships like the one between FTAK (Fairtrade Alliance Kerala) and Liberation, farmers´ futures may have been saved”. And we, in turn, have benefited greatly from the skills, resilience, hard work and dedication of the INC members. We are therefore very pleased to confirm, whilst in the midst of Fairtrade Fortnight 2021, that the International Nut Cooperative have recently bought further shares of Liberation, on top of the majority of shares they owned previously. Farmers will now have an even more powerful voice in shaping the company, their participation will be transformative for future initiatives and the work between producers, sellers and buyers will be even more collaborative. We will talk of ´us´ rather than ´them´. And we continue to edge closer to a vision of true equality and the mission with... read more
Cashews for Crisis at Christmas
Since 1972 the homeless charity, Crisis, has offered food, warmth and companionship to people in London over the Christmas period. This winter, Liberation has donated over 50kg of natural cashews to Crisis to use in the annual nut roast.
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay to every one of you out there! Sending particularly huge thanks & praise to all of th… t.co/HPtxUEyiyz
As #FairtradeFortnight ends & #InternationalWomensDay begins, this great article by @tahminaxbegum on the link betw… t.co/C85CBBV8ua
Join the residents of St Andrew's Church vicarage and make the switch to @Liberation_Nuts this #FairtradeFortnight.… t.co/j94hUDjN3s
In a couple of hours Liberation will join forces with other experts to get deep into #fairtrade & #socialenterprise… t.co/K0a1SdZSU3
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