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    Agro-Florentina SHPK

    A growing family business that collects and processes wild mushrooms, forest fruits & MAPs

    Description

    The wild Mushroom collection has been part of our family for three decades now. The activity started with our father Xhemshir Veliu, a mushroom enthusiast that loved the product to the extent that continued to start one of the first local collection points. The collection point brought together many villagers and families that started to practice mushroom foraging by making it an economic activity.

    The activity was interrupted as the war broke out in Kosova in 1998-1999 and together with more than 1 million Ethnic Albanians we were forcibly displaced and relocated to a Refugee Camp in North Macedonia. In 2000 we returned to our home in Kosova and started resuming our mushroom activity as well as our lives in our home country. Our company then called “Pranvera” in english meaning “Spring” became a strong connection point in the wild mushroom value chain and enabled a great number of families to resume and rebuild their homes and their lives in Kosova.

    Today, our family continues the activity now recognized as Agro-Florentina SH.P.K, which has expanded to processing and exporting not only of Wild Mushrooms but Forest Fruits and Medicinal Aromatic Plants. With a value chain of more than 3000 wild collectors, 120 farmers, and exporting to the EU and North America, our work just as much as our love for our products and community grows each day.

    Sector / Product / Services
    Name of contact person

    Tafil Veliu

    Contact Email

    agro.florentina.shpk@gmail.com

    Phone Number

    +383 49 352 003

    Website

    https://agroflorentina.net/

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    Certificate information
    The current business is certified....
    • December 31, 2022 12:00 am
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    Bio.inspecta

    Certificate Number

    AiK - 050

    Short info
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    Gold Standard was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development. The standard enables the certification of projects which maximise impact, create value for people around the world and the planet we share. Each project certified by Gold Standard meets a minimum of 3 SDGs.

    Gold Standard-certified projects have created over $31 Billion in shared value for climate action + sustainable development.
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    Gold Standard for the Global Goals customises safeguards, requirements, and methodologies to measure and verify impact on a wide range of activities -- from climate protection projects seeking to issue carbon credits to corporate supply chain interventions to national or subnational programmes looking for the most credible claims for their impact reporting.

    Gold Standard for the Global Goals is a standard that sets requirements to design projects for maximum positive impact in climate and development -- and to measure and report outcomes in the most credible and efficient way.
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    AiK - 050

    Issued by

    Bio.inspecta

    Certificate validity
    • December 31, 2022 12:00 am
    About GOTS
    With today’s sustainability challenges and the contribution of the fashion and textile industry to those challenges, we must collectively rethink production and consumption of textiles. Organic fibres play multifaceted roles in creating an industry that actively lowers its environmental impact and prioritizes human health over short term profit.
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    A textile product carrying the GOTS label must contain a minimum of 70% certified organic fibres, a product with the label grade grade 'organic' must contain a minimum of 95% certified organic fibres.

    Organic fibres are natural fibres grown without the use of synthetic pesticides (such as insecticides), or herbicides and GMOs (Genetic Modified Organisms) according to the principles of organic agriculture. Organic agriculture is a production process that sustains the health of ecosystems, soils and people.
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    Learn more about the GOTS standard at https://global-standard.org/resource-library/standard-and-certification
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    AiK - 050

    About VERRA - Verified Carbon Standard

    The VCS Program is the world’s most widely used voluntary GHG program. Over 1,840 certified VCS projects have collectively reduced or removed more than 984 million tonnes of carbon and other GHG emissions from the atmosphere.


    Individuals and corporations around the world are recognizing the importance of reducing their GHG emissions. As a result, many of them are reducing their carbon footprints through energy efficiency and other measures. Quite often, however, it is not possible for these entities to meet their targets or eliminate their carbon footprint, at least in the near term, with internal reductions alone, and they need a flexible mechanism to achieve these aspirational goals. Enter the carbon markets.

    By using the carbon markets, entities can neutralize, or offset, their emissions by retiring carbon credits generated by projects that are reducing GHG emissions elsewhere. Of course, it is critical to ensure, or verify, that the emission reductions generated by these projects are actually occurring. This is the work of the VCS Program – to ensure the credibility of emission reduction projects.

    Once projects have been certified against the VCS Program’s rigorous set of rules and requirements, project developers can be issued tradable GHG credits that we call Verified Carbon Units (VCUs).  Those VCUs can then be sold on the open market and retired by individuals and companies as a means to offset their own emissions. Over time, this flexibility channels financing to clean, innovative businesses and technologies.

    Verra’s role is to develop and administer the program. We provide oversight to all operational components of the VCS Program and we are responsible for updating the VCS rules such that they ensure the quality of VCUs. The development of the VCS Program is supported by the VCS Program Advisory Group, a multi-stakeholder body that helps ensure that the VCS Program continues to serve its users in an effective and efficient manner and drives practical and robust solutions to mitigate climate change.

     

    Issued by

    Bio.inspecta

    Certificate validity
    • December 31, 2022 12:00 am
    Certificate number

    AiK - 050

    About Organika
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    The ORGANIKA association was established in 2013 by the leading companies in the sector of Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs).
    The purpose of the association is to improve cooperation among stakeholders in this sector and further develop the sector by promoting Kosovo products in foreign export markets, and also through lobbying activities. Moreover, the ORGANIKA association aims to support all its members in becoming certified with organic standards within the next 5-7 years, and achieve that certified organic products become the majority of exports.
    Website
    https://organika-ks.org/en/about-us/

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