Sustainablity

Desert Joy helps poor families by providing them with stable jobs and insurance. Today, Desert Joy provides more than 900 people with Fair-trade certified jobs.

In many ways Desert Joy contributes to SDG 2. In the first place by producing food. Besides we provide free lunches for all staff and by providing jobs we enable people to buy healthy food.

Desert Joy is committed to creating good health and wellbeing by a strong focus on safety and reducing accidents. We have strict health and safety policies and provide medical and mental aid for employees if needed.

Gender equality is very important for us. Everyone should feel welcome and safe in our company. To assure this we provide training and establish a gender committee.

Through our business we contribute to economic growth in the region through providing good jobs and salaries. Good working conditions are very important for us hence we are the first Fair-trade certified tomato grower in the world. We provide free transport, medical care, training and day care for children.

We believe that we can only succeed if we work responsibly for nature and people. This starts by producing sustainably. Most importantly water and energy use. Without water we won’t be able to grow our tomatoes. In our region water is increasingly scarce. In order to mitigate these effects we take measures to optimize the efficiency of our water by reusing drainage water use and we work on alternative water sources such as the use of treated waste water. The reason to start production in Tunisia was for the use of the good climate for tomatoes. Because of this we use relatively little energy still we optimize the use of renewable and solar Energy.

We use biological fertilizers and pesticides (only when is strictly necessary) and recycle almost all of our waste.