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Journey to Serendipol

October 8, 2018 /Posted byAdmin

Journey to Serendipol – Dr. Bronner’s Fair Trade and Organic Coconut Oil from Sri Lanka

About Journey to Serendipol: What does sustainable business look like? What is true fair trade, from root to fruit? Journey to Serendipol (8 minutes) documents the development of Dr. Bronner’s fair trade sister company Serendipol in Sri Lanka—growing out of a tsunami relief effort in 2004 to become the world’s foremost source of certified fair trade and organic virgin coconut oil. Hear the voices of some of the 1,200 organic farmers and 300 staff members who grow and process coconuts for Serendipol’s plant in Kuliyapitiya, as they talk about the project’s impact on local community development. Serendipol serves as a model for fair trade projects around the world.

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Biodiversity

Banana, pineapple, ginger, cinnamon and other inter crops grown between coconut trees to increase biodiversity, reduce pest pressure, and promote sequestration of CO2 into the soil.

Because crops are planted more densely, also generates additional income per acre for farmers.

Bee keeping to encourage pollination of main and inter crops and to support natural habitats.

Replanting

Productive seedlings placed in between existing trees to receive sufficient sunlight.

Once seedlings are old enough to produce nuts, the neighbouring ageing trees are removed.

Soil Fertility

Produced and supplied >33 million kg of compost to our farmers at subsidized prices, spending over $450,000.

With our support, some farmers now produce their own compost on-site.

Over half of our farmers allow cattle to graze on their coconut estates—helping to convert weeds and grass into manure, stimulate growth of plant roots, and sequestration of CO2 into biomass.

Soil/Water Conservation

Vegetative cover with a ground canopy of perennial grasses and other cover cropping species.

Mulching with weeds, leaves, coconut fronds and coconuts husks.

Adding contour drains/bunds.

Burying spongy coconut husks in pits around trees.

Agroforestry

Some of our farms have thick canopies, high species diversity, and high biomass generation reducing soil erosion.

In such farms, we observe recycling of leaf litter, sustainability of soil fertility, reduced soil erosion, and improved food security.

Our innovative and comprehensive agroforestry project.

Organic Integrity

Ensuring traceability of product through personal, verifiable, and transparent relationships with farmers.

Maintaining organic integrity through stringent measures-e.g., GPS-monitored lorries-to avoid commingling at farm, in transit, or in storage.

To help our contract growers improve the fertility and profitability of their estates through natural methods. To be a catalyst of rural development in our host community and our entire project region-in respectful cooperation with our staff, growers and the community at large.

To conceive, develop and produce novel, high-quality value added coconut based products that demonstrate the versatility of this renewable resource. To demonstrate to customers and consumers that operating under our “organic and fair trade” mandate is compatible with the professional and profitable operation of a business.

To be the world’s foremost supplier of certified organic and fair trade coconut products, thus giving our shareholders and customers a reliable, environmentally sustainable and socially responsible source of raw material for their food and body care products.