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We are constantly looking for leaders for various roles in Togo and Burkina Faso. Our high standards and the situation on the ground make this search quite challenging.
At the beginning of June, a group of armed men broke into our production site in Campo Largo, Brazil and threatened the employees. What did the men want? We spoke about the incident with managing director Jonathas Baerle, who was there himself.
An exciting orange season has come and gone. For the first time, we were allowed to disregard export standards for shape, colour and size of the fruit with official permission from the EU – much to the surprise of the farming families and the local juice industry.
We spoke with long-time African correspondent for SRF Ruedi Küng in great detail about Burkina Faso, terrorism and the future of the Sahel region.
Olive oil from Palestine is one of our longest-standing products, and one from a uniquely complicated country of origin.
At gebana, we often talk about the risks that come with investing or doing business in Burkina Faso. From our corporate perspective in distant Europe, questions revolve around poor infrastructure, a lack of security and terrorism. But how do the people living in the country see it? We asked gebana employee Ousseni Porgo.
Siberian pine nuts both look and taste similar to the pine nuts you know. But their origins could not be more different.
We're paying an increasing number of farming families in Africa by mobile phone. Three questions and three answers on this payment method.
Two million people depend on humanitarian aid; over half a million are refugees. Attacks and assaults, people injured and dead, a third of the country is not under state control. Life in Burkina Faso has become more dangerous. Yet we’re staying put.
The coronavirus crisis has us firmly in its grip. At gebana, the virus has affected us in different ways. We’re working from home, direct shipping sales have increased, and in the South, a reduced number of people are working in processing, for safety reasons. Each day, we adapt to the situation and try to make the best of it.
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