Press Coverage

MACHALA, ECUADOR–From the air, the fields of banana plants look curiously similar to flowerless periwinkle. Millions of the tree-sized plants stretch from the sea to the not-too-distant Andes.

So thick are the plantations surrounding the banana capital of the world that their stalks of green – always green – Cavendish bananas cannot be seen beneath the leaves. Nor can the thousands of labourers, young, old and adolescent who toil in their shadow.

Montréal, le 13 mars 2008 – Équiterre se réjouit de l’arrivée sur le marché québécois du premier produit frais certifié équitable au Québec : la banane.