Banana Link campaigns for fair and equitable production and trade in bananas and pineapples based on environmental, social and economic sustainability.
We work in partnership with plantation worker trade unions and small-scale farmer organisations to achieve sustainable production and trade in banana and other agricultural industries.
Banana Link has a long track record of making a real difference to the lives of plantation workers, small scale farmers and their communities, and has made a significant contribution to making tropical fruit export production more ethical and sustainable.
Why We Exist Hear From Small-Scale Farmers & Plantation Workers
“We work harder and harder, try to produce more and better while preserving the environment. But while our plants and fruits grow, while the profits of the supermarkets grow, the prices we receive never seem to grow. They cannot sustain a decent standard of living.”
“My demand as a worker is to be paid accordingly. We work because we have the need to earn a living, so if we work we should get paid appropriately. I just ask that we get paid as we should, enough so we can survive, so we can provide for our children, our families, to support others.”
Alan Rafael Garcia Socola Peruvian plantation worker
“They spray with the little plane and this affects the workers’ health because there’s no protection. There’s no protection for the women who work packing bananas in the packing plant. They don’t give them gloves, masks, boots… They don’t get given anything like that.”
Francisca Criollo a nurse on the Rio Culebra banana plantation, Ecuador
“The current instability of the labour market wears the face of a woman; it is our responsibility to fight to improve our working conditions to ensure that we are employed with decency and dignity from this day and onwards.”
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