Context

North-West Dom-Rep :‘left out’ & poorest region

Unstable access to export market, low quality, low

prices, lack of ressources for investments, …

Actual producers = former beneficiaries of agrarian

reform (70’s), workers on plantations, or producers

without titles of ownership.

No access to basic services (water, health,

education, ...), no access to credit.

Only two exporters (Fyffes – Grenada Fruit

Company): dependancy, arbitrarity, …

Presentation of Banelino

• Amina 1996

• Juliana – Jaramillo 1996

• San Isidro 1997

• Valles Intramontanos (La Caída) 2002

• Isabel (Hatillo Palma) 2003

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1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

75 75 75

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155

240

275 275300

340313

327

NUMERO DE PRODUCTORES/AÑO

NUMERO DE PRODUCTORES/AÑO

25.38% 1.22%2.45%

70.95%

0-5 Has.; 0-80 Tas. 5-10 Has.; 80-160 Tas.

10-15 Has.; 160-240 Tas.

15-Has.; 240-Tas.

Banelino 2009 – Ha/Producer

828.474

1.332.821

1.120.519

1.330.230

177.124 147.688 135.920243.865

19.338 28.471 24.162 29.701

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400.000

600.000

800.000

1.000.000

1.200.000

1.400.000

2006 2007 2008 2009

FAIRTRADE NO FAIRTRADE PRO/SEM

82.39% 90.02% 89.18% 84.51%

Production in boxes

Objectives of Banelino

Improve live of small

producers & their

communities

Progress on economic,

social and environmental

level

Improve quality to secure

markets

Sustainable development

and autonomy: own

packing stations, export,

technical assistance,

organic production

Economic improvements (1)

Family level

FT offers possibilities of investments in farm

Stable income & basic production costs covered

Fairtrade minimum price in organic production = + 33,5%.

2009: FOB price 12.30 USD /box – producers received

8.75 USD /box

In conventional production Fairtrade minimum price hardly

covers production costs

Labour conditions and salaries for workers and their

families are improved

Economic improvements (2)

Organizational level

Increased productivity, competitivity

FT growth : from 5 MT in 2001 24000 MT in 2009

Organic: from 37 to 75% of Banelino’s production

Management and negociation capacities improved

New producers (some 100) entered

Increased economic dynamics in the region

New projects of diversification :

biodiversity experiments on farm

FT premium use 2009

Total amount: 1 330 000 USD

Productive investments: 305 000 USD

Social investments for workers and producers:

1 091 500 USD

Environmental investments: 82 000 USD

Irrigation system with microsprinklers

Packing stations

Productive investments

(Fairtrade premium)

Social investments

Education

Health

Housing

Sports

Solidarity with Haiti

EDUCATION

School uniforms for some 2000 children

Equipment for 7 schools

University scholarships for 75 students

IDENE: full set-up of a school for special

children

HEALTH For the whole community

Preventive health : 1300 consults for haitian workers and

their families, > 500 vaccinations for haitian children

Construction of a health centre : > 1000 workers and their

families

Labourers in Banelino are for 80% Haitians. Salary + 43%

compared to Dominican legal minimum

Workers permit for 538 haitians = step up for legal stay.

Salary of 11 $ US ( 1,75 $ US in Haiti )

Other labour conditions

HAITIANS LIVING AND WORKING IN DOM REPUBLIC

Urgent Medical assistance, medicine, food during first 5

days after the earthquake

Tents (100) for the victims of the earthquake

Banelino raised some US$ 150,000 for the construction of

a primary school based on a deduction for every box of

bananas sold

SOLIDARITY WITH HAÏTI AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

Fairtrade prevents producers to depend on charity.

Fairtrade stimulates producers to organize themselves and

reinforce managerial capacities on all levels.

Strong organisations, like Banelino, increase their

negociating power.

What is Fairtrade about in

Banelino? (1)

Fairtrade improves the

situation of families on all

level

Prevent rural migration

Fairtrade offers stable

markets and a minimum

price if market prices fail to

cover production costs

What is Fairtrade about in

Banelino? (2)