NUS Article: Hope in a Conflict Zone: The Zaytoun Story…
Zaytoun on November 18th, 2009Zaytoun was recently featured in the NUS Magazine ‘Spotlight’. To read the full article click here
Triodos Bank: Where Transparency is the Best Policy
Zaytoun on November 18th, 2009Zaytoun is among the many ethical projects that benefit from a Triodos Bank loan to support its growth. Now Triodos is the first bank allowing anyone to see all the loans it is making. To read more click here
Farmers in Palestine Create Amazing Produce - Guardian Article
Zaytoun on October 7th, 2009Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes – even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce – and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
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Zaytoun Favourite Ethical Consumer Product
Zaytoun on October 7th, 2009Zaytoun Olive Oil is among the top products mentioned in a recent Ethical Consumer Magazine poll. See more here
The Bottom Line: Ethical Oil is A First for Fairtrade
Zaytoun on October 7th, 2009Zaytoun is a Community Interest Company created to develop a UK market for fairly traded Palestinian produce.
The company is a co-operative and a member of the World Fair Trade Organisation. Zaytoun has worked with farmer co-ops to introduce the first olive oil and olives to receive the Fairtrade Foundation mark.
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Zaytoun Wins Times Readers’ Award - Women in Ethical Business
Zaytoun on July 22nd, 2009Zaytoun is proud to have won The Women in Ethical Business Awards and thanks all Times Readers’ for voting for us.
For further information click here and to see a video of Zaytoun’s Director Heather Gardner click here.
Zaytoun CIC Wins 2009 Arab-British Culture & Society Award
Zaytoun on May 15th, 2009The Arab-British Centre recently announced Zaytoun CIC (Community Interest Company) as winner of the 2009 Arab-British Culture and Society Award. The annual award of £5000 is made to an individual or organisation which in the opinion of the judges has made an outstanding contribution to the British public’s knowledge and understanding of the life, society and culture of the Arab people. The judges unanimously chose Zaytoun CIC ‘for the inspirational way it has marketed Palestinian olive oil and olives in the UK. Through the background briefings, informative promotions and exchange visits it has organised, it has very effectively raised awareness in the UK of the life, problems and potential of Palestinian farmers. Its success in gaining Fairtrade certification – a first for a Palestinian product and a world first for olive oil – has created new opportunities for extending the British public’s knowledge of an important aspect of the life of Arab people.’
Zaytoun CIC was one of eleven candidates shortlisted for the award. The judges were impressed with the high quality and range of the nominations received and specially commended the following candidates for their notable contributions:
* IB Tauris: Publisher of a large and varied list of academic books on the Arab and Islamic worlds.
* Professor Tim Niblock: Writer on the Arab world, and teacher of generations of UK and foreign students specialising in the region.
* Raja Shehadeh: Palestinian author of engaging and accessible books on life in the West Bank.
The judging panel for the 2009 Arab-British Culture and Society Award comprised: Sir Marrack Goulding (Chair), Dr Shelagh Weir (Acting Chair), HE Khalid Al Duwaisan, André Gaspard, Robert Irwin, Dr Ghada Karmi, Margaret Obank.
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Zaytoun in The Irish Independent
Zaytoun on March 17th, 2009Oiling the cogs of hope for Palestinian farmers
Fairtrade is to market Zaytoun olive oil on behalf of growers
Tuesday March 10 2009
It’s the essential ingredient in the Mediterranean diet and marketed as life-enhancing nectar, but the business of olive oil production is fraught with environmental and political tensions.
In the EU, industrial scale olive oil production is being blamed by ecologists for disproportionate consumption of scarce water resources, soil erosion and even impending desertification in parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.
In Israel and Palestine, the annual olive harvest has become a flashpoint for conflict between Israeli settlers and Palestinian farmers and producers in the West Bank.
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Zaytoun in The Church Times
Zaytoun on February 27th, 2009Fairtrade Fortnight message is: Back the smallholder
The Fairtrade Foundation is urging consumers to support its work with farmers in developing countries who have been hit hard by the global economic crisis.
It launched a report, Global Food Crisis and Fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions?, to mark the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight on Monday.
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Palestinian Olive Oil: Fruity With Peppery, Lingering Taste
Zaytoun on February 26th, 2009Listen to Guardian interview with Nasser Abufarha, Chair of the Palestinian Fairtrade Association here
