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The World Banana Forum is a platform for meeting and dialogue between stakeholders from the whole banana production and distribution chain, including supermarkets, trade unions, NGOs and governments. In 2005, the second International Banana Conference was convened by a consortium of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including our Southern partners, COLSIBA, WINFA and UROCAL (1) to bring together stakeholders from the entire banana production and distribution chain, to reflect on the difficulties and challenges which faced the industry. This conference ended with a decision to establish a permanent multi-stakeholder forum to undertake the task of reversing – and indeed raising – declining social and environmental standards across the industry. Civil society led subsequent efforts to secure the commitment of key players to participate in the proposed forum resulting in the creation of a Preparatory Committee. In December 2009 in the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, the World Banana Forum (WBF) was launched, with the mission set by all 150 plus participants of ‘Working Together for Sustainable Banana Production and Trade’. All the major banana companies, together with global retailers, growers and trade unions of plantation workers from four continents, joined trade associations, scientists, producer and consumer governments as well as UN agencies to launch an ambitious programme of work. Government members of the FAO gathered at the Conference of the Inter-Governmental Group on Bananas and Tropical Fruit ratified the creation of the World Banana Forum and committed themselves to contribute to its success. The mission of the Forum is to inspire collaboration between all players in the global industry – from plantation to supermarket shelf – that enables a transition towards sustainability and achieves consensus on best practices regarding workplace issues, gender equity, environmental impact, sustainable production and economic issues. The participation of the most powerful corporate actors in the industry in the WBF has been driven by the most vulnerable – our partners in producing countries, notably COLSIBA, UROCAL and the Caribbean Farmers Association (WINFA). As part of the ‘Make Fruit Fair’ campaign we are asking consumers to encourage those fruit companies and supermarkets that are not actively involved in the Forum to become committed participants. We believe that the Forum provides a unique opportunity to create a sustainable banana trade that includes the respect of worker’s rights, payment of a living wage and improved environmental practices, including reducing dependency on pesticides. Corporate commitment to this process is essential to its success. Among the achievements of the Forum are: For more information please visit: www.fao.org/economic/worldbananaforum/wbf-aboutus/.[1] COLSIBA is the Latin American Cooordination of Banana & Agro Industrial Products Unions; WINFA is the Caribbean Farmers Association and UROCAL is the Regional Union of Peasant Organizations of Litoral (Ecuador) representing over 600 small scale producers of banana, cocoa and citrus fruits.
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Svjetski forum za banane platforma je za dijalog između svih karika u proizvodnom i distributivnom lancu banana, što uključuje supermarkete, sindikate, NVO-e i vlade. Konzorcij udruga civilnog društva, koji uključuje naše partnere iz siromašnih zemalja globalnog juga, kao što su COLSIBA[1], WINFA i UROCAL, 2005. godine organizirao je drugu Međunarodnu konferenciju o bananama koja je povezala karike iz cijelog proizvodnog i distribucijskog lanca banana kako bi razgovarali o svim poteškoćama s kojima se ta industrija nosila. Konferencija je zaključena odlukom o osnivanju trajnog višedioničkog foruma koji će se baviti unaprijeđenjem društvenih i okolišnih faktora diljem industrije. Civilno društvo uložilo je značajan napor kako bi ključni dionici sudjelovali u predloženom forumu, što je rezultiralo osnivanjem Pripremnog odbora. U prosincu 2009. u sjedištu Organizacije za hranu i poljoprivredu Ujedinjenih naroda (FAO), p 1e62 okrenut je Svjetski forum za banene (WBF) čiju je misiju odredilo 150 sudionika konferencije Zajedničkim radom do održive proizvodnje i trgovine bananama. Sva veća poduzeća koje se bave bananama, kao i svjetski prodavači, uzgajivači i sindikati radnika na plantažama s četiri kontinenta, povezali su se s udrugama trgovaca, znanstvenika, proizvođača i potrošača, ali i agencijama UN-a, kako bi pokrenuli ambiciozan program za rad. Predstavnici vlada u FAO-u okupljeni na Konferenciji međuvladine grupe za banane i tropsko voće, ratificirali su odluku o uspostavljanju stvaranje Svjetskog foruma za banane ,odlučni da doprinesu njegovom uspjehu. Misija Foruma jest potaknuti suradnju između svih igrača svjetske industrije — od plantaže do police — koja će omogućiti promjenu usmjerenu ka održivosti i uspostaviti konsenzus u vezi s najboljim načinom za ostvarenje radničkih prava, rodne jednakosti, smanjenja utjecaja na okoliš, održive proizvodnje i rješavanja ekonomskih pitanja. Sudjelovanje najvažnijih korporacija u industriji u WBF-u vode oni najranjiviji — naši partneri u zemljama proizvođačicama, najviše COLSIBA, UROCAL i Karipsko udruženje poljoprivrednika (WINFA). U sklopu kampanje „Želimo pravedno proizvedeno tropsko voće!“ molimo potrošače da utječu na kompanije i supermarkete koji nisu aktivno uključeni u Forum, kako bi i oni postali sudionici. Smatramo da Forum nudi jedinstvenu mogućnost za stvaranje održive trgovine bananama koja uključuje poštivanje radničkih prava, plaćanje životnog minimuma i bolji odnos prema okolišu, npr. smanjenjem korištenja pesticida. Od presudne je važnosti za uspjeh ovog procesa to da se korporacije obvežu u njemu sudjelovati. Za više informacija molimo posjetite: www.fao.org/economic/worldbananaforum/wbf-aboutus/