Presentation of the Organic Solidarity Brand
As of 2007, Bio Partenaire has wished to extend the Organic Fair Trade approach to stakeholders in the local organic commodity chain and to set forth a tool able to unite them in a logic of continuous economic development, both local and social. The organization worked to widen the scope of the Organic Fair Trade frame of reference and to adapt it to local national issues. A second brand was created on these grounds: ORGANIC SOLIDARITY*.
ORGANIC SOLIDARITY is the brand for community partnerships between processing companies and producers working towards durability on national territories (in France at present).
The Organic Solidarity approach guarantees to producers a fair remuneration on their production, processing companies being committed to minimum prices (calculated on the basis of production costs), to volumes, and in the medium to long term (a minimum of 3 years).
Over and above such commercials commitments, the partners together define a development project over several years, able to answer the needs of the producers and of the commodity chain, and therefore sustaining agriculture and the agricultural world.
The brand is granted on the basis of the respect of the Organic Solidarity standard and is the object of an annual control by a third party independent organization (ECOCERT SA or QUALITE France SAS). Usage of the logo agrees with the visual chart of Organic Solidarity.
The approach, which is not exclusive, can be implemented in other European countries
Discover the 7 Principles of the Organic Solidarity Charter
The Organic Solidarity charter presents the 7 principles on which the universal approach of Bio Partenaire is resting on.
Scope of the Organic Fair Trade Approach
Territories within scope : France
Organic productions within scope : raw materials of an agricultural origin.
Products within scope : Food products, textiles and cosmetic products.
Eligibility of operators : The ORGANIC SOLIDARITY brand is primarily granted to first buyer companies at the source of the structuring of a commodity chain. Such company which accompany producers are the Project Sponsors. The brand can also be granted to second buyer companies, either processing or distributing under its own brand name.
2 types of organizations for production for Organic Solidarity:
We make the difference between two types of organizations within the commodity chainl:
- Individual system: the first buyer company and producers are directly connected; the company therefore commits itself directly vis-à-vis the producers.
- Collective system: a structure exists to group the various productions (coop, SICA, association, private collector, etc); the first buyer company commits itself towards the collective structure, which in turns commits itself towards producers
For further information, please contact Dorothée Meyer : dorothee@biopartenaire.com
* "ORGANIC SOLIDARITY" has been registered as a brand at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Marseille in June 2002.
