OUR VALUES
Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of women and indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea while spreading Galip to the world!
Agriculture is one of the most important economic drivers in Papua New Guinea and provides the main source of income to 85% of the nation’s population as well as to national export earnings for the country. Agriculture is also predominantly a female crop yet women do not have equal access to the income generated from this. At FFL, we are committed to providing opportunities to women and indigenous communities through the commercialisation of Galip Nut in Papua New Guinea.
We continue to reinvest and expand our supply chain among female collector groups, indigenous communities and local farmers and farmer groups. Our delicious nut exists to improve the livelihoods of the people of Papua New Guinea.
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Sourcing
Our Galip nuts are sourced from female collectors and indigenous communities in the Islands Region of PNG. They are wild-collected by rural households, mostly women, from trees in the rainforest and trees around their homes.
To ensure the highest quality and food safety, produce is procured from farmers as nut-in-pulp after going through a rigorous inspection process. Our Galip fruit is then de-pulped, sun-dried and hand-cracked at our facility before being processed into our delicious Galip products.
At Frangipani Foods, we pride ourselves on producing clean, good-for-you products. No pesticides are ever used.
Galip nut is traditionally a women’s crop. They gather the nuts for home consumption and to support their families by selling them fresh in local markets. There is scientific evidence to indicate that Galip has been selected in PNG by women and their families for some 8,000 years and, as such, is likely one of the first domesticated food plants in PNG.
During the Galip fruiting season, an excess of nuts are available. This is when FFL works with female collector groups and smallholder farmers to provide an access point to international markets and a source of additional income for rural communities.
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Transparency & Traceability of Produce
Our Galip nuts are wild-collected and sold to us as nut-in-pulp predominantly by women from rural households.
Records are kept by FFL of each purchase so that we can trace exactly where each batch of processed nuts originated.
Certification schemes can then use this information to validate the ethical management and practices of the FFL supply chain operations.
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Empowering Farmers
We empower our farmers by ensuring they receive a fair price for their produce and the foundational knowledge to operate and manage sustainable farming businesses.
Since 2001, FFL directors have been associated with various substantial farmer development initiatives.
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Training includes education on financial literacy, basic business planning, post-harvest, processing and crop. In this way, we can all grow together while sharing the love of our indigenous nut - Galip.
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One such group is the East New Britain Women and Youth in Agriculture Cooperative Society.
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Environment & Climate Change
Papua New Guinea has the third largest tropical rainforest in the world comprising some 28 million hectares on 70% of the country’s land area. It is therefore hugely important for its storage capacity for carbon and hence Global Warming. Galip trees are reported to be the 7th most common tree species in the PNG lowland rainforest with about 0.2 trees per hectare in some 6 million hectares. Galip trees are therefore important to the tropical environment and Climate Change.
Galip trees grow tall to around 25 metres. They can live for many hundreds of years, capturing carbon for the benefit of the world.
One of our Founders, John Moxon, was responsible for initiating the planting of some 600,000 Galip trees in the Islands Region for nutritional and income benefits of rural households and, importantly at the same time, contributing to carbon storage and climate change mitigation. This was through the World Bank-financed Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project which ran from 2011 to 2020.
FFL aims to continue supporting the planting of massive quantities of Galip trees including forest enrichment to provide traditional landowners a viable economic alternative to clear-fell logging of their tropical rainforests.
