EUROBAN

Achieving EUROBAN’s Vision

EUROBAN supports and facilitates its members and partners to:

• cooperate closely with other civil society organisations, particularly trade unions and small‐scale producer organizations, to develop alternative proposals and take international action, whilst also developing dialogue and joint proposals with tropical fruit companies and retailers.
• back initiatives to reduce the negative environmental impacts of tropical fruit industries including measurable reduction and strict control of the use of agrochemicals (including encouragement of organic production and consumption), better waste and water management, protection of biodiversity and better health and safety protection for female and male workers and female and male small‐scale producers.
• lobby policymakers to stop the negative impacts of corporate behaviour and to ensure the voices of female and male workers and female and male small‐scale producers are heard in the decision-making of companies, governments and other policy makers.
• promote responsible consumption and awareness of consumers through public education activities and the proactive dissemination of information about what goes on in tropical fruit industries.
• constructively engage with voluntary certification schemes to ensure that these standards actually deliver tangible benefits for both female and male workers and female and male small‐scale producers, including payment of prices that cover the real costs of production and the payment of living wages.
• develop, disseminate, and advocate for innovative trade policy reforms by national governments, the European Union and other multilateral entities.
• cooperate with other civil society organisation networks and facilitate communication and action channels between them in order to achieve common goals.
• actively participate in the World Banana Forum (WBF)