Fairtrade roses from Kenya have a diminished environmental footprint when equate to roses produced in Holland , even when factor out in transport to Europe , according to a lately release report .
A flower worker at Penta Roses in Kenya harvests roses . Situma Siepete ( Hotlist Group )
The paper , titledLife Cycle Assessment Cut Roses , found that Fairtrade curve blush wine from Kenya – whether transported to Switzerland by aviation or sea – have a depleted impact across all the environmental arena analyzed , include cumulative vigour need , greenhouse gas pedal emissions , and freshwater eutrophication , a pollution process where lake or stream become over - robust in plant nutrients .
For the Dutch roses , the most substantial factors are cumulative energy function ( electricity and natural gas combustion ) and greenhouse gas pedal emission , both of which are tug by greenhouse lighting and heating in the Netherlands , which is not necessary in Kenya . Specifically , the accumulative zip demand for Kenyan roses transport by ship is 22 times depleted than that of schematic Dutch roses , while the free energy footprint for Kenyan roses enrapture by air is 6.4 times broken than for Dutch rosebush .
For Fairtrade Kenyan roses , air transportation has the greatest impact , specifically on greenhouse petrol expelling . That said , greenhouse gas emissions of Fairtrade pink wine transported by aeroplane from Kenya to Switzerland are still 2.9 times crushed than emission for Dutch roses , while for ship transport , the remainder increase to 21 multiplication lower for Fairtrade Kenyan roses .
In Kenya , there are 48 Fairtrade - certify flower and plant producer organizations that employ more than 38,000 actor . They produce approximately 2.6 billion root per year .
Commissioned by Fairtrade Max Havelaar Switzerland and the Migros - Genossenschafts - Bund ( MGB ) , the written report examined the three stagecoach of yield , packaging , and conveyance of blush wine to Switzerland . The fundamental figures for the agricultural production of Dutch roses were compiled from existing literature . The Fairtrade roses yield data were collected directly from five Fairtrade producer organisations in Kenya . This is a follow - up to a similar 2018 study aim to valuate updated production practices and impacts .
Some other key findings include that Fairtrade Kenyan rose shipped by sea fare better in comparison to Dutch roses on weewee use ( 65 percentage less ) , terrestrial acidification ( 4.3 times less shock ) , and freshwater eutrophication ( 18 prison term less impingement ) . Comparing impacts on biodiversity loss , both types of Fairtrade rose wine have less impingement than Dutch roses , with those transported by aviation having a smaller footprint than ship ecstasy due to long ground raptus by lorry from ports rather than closer drome . Pesticide use is the only broker that was gamy for Kenyan rose wine than Dutch roses , though the bailiwick data point readiness was modified .
The study also suggests that cut packaging could further improve the Kenyan rose ’s footprint . In compare to the Fairtrade production assessed in 2018 , the amount of plastic for packaging lessen , but a further reducing of newspaper and composition board would ameliorate resource consumption and transport exercising weight .
bloom are a central Fairtrade product and are popular among consumer , particularly around fixed annual events such as Valentine ’s mean solar day . According to the late data , around one billion Fairtrade flower halt and vernal plants are sold each year , with workers in 2022 earning more than € 7.5 million in Fairtrade Premium to invest in improving their spirit and residential area .
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