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Sustainable collection standards for Pakistani pine nuts cheaper and easier with NI-CheckApp
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Sustainable collection standards for Pakistani pine nuts cheaper and easier with NI-CheckApp

profound2020-03-04T11:50:40+00:00December 22nd, 2017|Tags: Biofach, FairWild, Hunza Organics, IN2NI, NI-CheckApp, Pine nuts|

Hunza Organics, based in Northern Pakistan, has just passed its first inspection for FairWild certification, of wild-collected, organic pine nuts. We expect the certification decision to be made in January, which would make Hunza Organics the first company with multiple certified products in the pilot that CBI and ProFound designed for Northern Pakistan. We are proud that Hunza Organics used our total compliance tool, NI-CheckApp, to make the implementation of sustainable collection standards cheaper and easier. Our IN2NI colleague Michael Schwegler provided technical support throughout this process. In their final step towards the European market, Hunza Organics will exhibit their products at the BioFach trade [Read more]

CBI and ProFound awarded for Natural Ingredients work in Pakistan – preparing companies for multiple certifications

profound2020-03-04T09:47:29+00:00August 25th, 2017|Tags: CBI, FairWild, IN2NI, NI-CheckApp, organic, Pakistan, Pine nuts|

ProFound executive director Bert-Jan Ottens and IN2NI colleague Michael Schwegler just returned from a CBI mission in Pakistan, in the context of CBI’s Natural Ingredients programme. During the mission, Bert-Jan and Michael trained five companies on traceability and sustainability requirements, and the certification thereof. Three companies are prepared for certification in 2017/18, using ProFound’s NI-CheckApp. The companies are getting ready for FairWild and organic certification audits later this year, and aim to present their dual-certified pine nuts at the BioFach trade fair in Germany in February 2018. At a trade Expo in Gilgit-Baltistan, the team received an award from the [Read more]

Pilot certification tool: Sustainably sourcing Pine Nuts in Northern Pakistan

Aafke van Sprundel2017-12-19T14:24:51+00:00August 29th, 2016|Tags: CBI, Fair for Life, FairWild, GACP, NI-CheckApp, organic, Pakistan, Pine nuts|

During a recent CBI mission in July to Pakistan, Bert-Jan Ottens and Michael Schwegler (our in2ni colleague) prepared the grounds for an innovative pilot scheme, aiming at the sustainable sourcing and certification of wild-collected Chilgoza (pine) nuts from the Northern areas of Pakistan. They took stock of current collection and processing practices of Community Biodiversity Enterprises (CBEs) in the Gouherabad valley, who are collecting Chilgoza pine nuts from their communal forests. The pilot introduces a ground-breaking certification solution that aims to assess and certify supply chains in the natural ingredient sector according to multiple voluntary sustainable standards. This certification tool [Read more]