Nuestras condolencias a las familias de las víctimas y solidaridad con los afectados por la Dana.
Our commitment to sustainability has led us to join the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, which includes 17 goals and 169 targets aimed at all the actors in the planet.
This way, the United Nations, for the first time, grants companies a main role, considering that they do not only generate wealth, but also development.
VICASOL business model is social, cooperative and inclusive, as it integrates the small agricultural producers.
We guarantee appropriate salaries and non-discriminating hiring processes.
We encourage good social practices in the countryside and integrated production techniques.
We contribute to society with the donation of fruits and vegetables to collectives in risk of social exclusion.
Moreover, we guarantee healthy food through ecological farming practices and integrated production by using procedures that are respectful with the environment and good agricultural practices.
We are aware of the importance of a healthy diet and promote the Mediterranean diet, as it has nutritional, health, environmental and cultural benefits, as well as to practice sports.
We promote strict safety and hygiene protocols in fruits and vegetables throughout the value chain.
We promote business culture and commitment with Human Rights, environment, transparency, gender equality, etc.
We guarantee to our staff and partners a continuous learning.
We collaborate with organizations of different collectives in risk of exclusion and offer internships for these people to improve their employability level.
We adopt measures against gender employment discrimination. Resources against sexual harassment and sex discrimination. Zero tolerance.
Formative communication and marketing activities that encourage gender equality.
Internships and hiring of women in risk of social exclusion
We implement measures regarding a strict policy on water consumption and reuse.
We promote and collaborate with partners to develop precision technologies that enable the maximization of productivity and minimization of water use.
We work with providers in the development and design of barrels for the recirculation of pepper and tomato washing waters, as a measure for saving in water consumption.
We adopt energetic efficiency practices in the activities of the company.
We collaborate with partners to reduce the consumption of energy and to promote energy efficiency
We ensure decent working conditions for interest groups by a non-discriminating hiring, salary, benefits, training and promotion.
We carry out processes that meet the requirements of Human Rights and that especially focus on forced and child labor.
We promote decent work through regional and sustainable agriculture, and through decent, safe and healthy working environments, especially in the case of migrant workers.
We collaborate with partners to achieve the adaptation of smallholdings’ technologies for better connectivity, as well as for a better access to capital, aggregation mechanisms (to achieve scale economies among small farmers) and better links to markets.
We redistribute salaries in a coherent way, promoting decent salaries for all the staff and encouraging these practices among partners and the supply chain.
We set transparent internal procedures to avoid corruption and tax fraud.
We promote initiatives of carpooling among VICASOL employees.
We work to reduce container wasting by the recovery of those that end up in landfills and the search for new technological processes.
We support responsible consumption through our commitment with sustainability, health and corporate image and this is certified with the corresponding certifications and seals.
We carry out an Environmental Impact Management Plan
We assess farmer partners in environmental matters
We have certified environmental management systems
We encourage programmes against climate change throughout the value chain.
We join volunteering actions for beach clean-ups such us Punta Entinas Protected Area Clean-up, which was a joint initiative by the Educational Association “El árbol de las piruletas”, Coexphal and APROA with the support of the Council of El Ejido and the Regional Government of Andalusia.
We invest in the development of new technologies that improve environmental protection, including more sustainable agricultural production methods.
We encourage ecological and sustainable agriculture by using high performance seeds or organic nutrients.
We support the United Nations Global Compact to integrate the guiding principles of companies and Human Rights.
We have developed an internal control system to fight against all kinds of corruption and to encourage all the value chain agents to stick to the code of conduct.
We ensure the traceability of products in the supply chain to guarantee that they have been produced by and come from workers whose rights have been respected, for their later commercialization.
We agree to partnerships with other companies in order to receive information about sustainable practices.
We join agricultural associations that promote innovation under sustainable criteria.
We collaborate with food banks and other social institutions to promote sustainability in the agroalimentary chain.
Vicasol is a cooperative focused on people, on the well-being of the farmer partners and their families, and on our working team. We are focused on generating jobs and wealth in our area by promoting policies and actions for sustainable environmental development.
Our team adds up to our family of farmers, with more than 2500 employees, being women the 70% of them. More than 50% of our women hold responsible positions.
In our cooperative we promote and believe in equality. Most of our employees and head of departments are women. To put it into effect, we have created a blueprint: Our Equality Program that includes both management actions and a program for annual actions and activities, like Annual Women’s Day, a day in which, every year, all our female farmer partners celebrate a get-together and participate in activities.
Every year, we join job placement programs for people in risk of social exclusion, in food bank donation campaigns, and in the reforestation of natural places in our area, contributing to the fight for the restoration of our region’s aquifers.
In Vicasol we preserve the environment and try to sustainably use our surroundings. For that, we efficiently use the resources we have in order to produce, and we reforestate the mountains that are close to our greenhouses to draw and increase the water amount in aquifers. We can certainly say, as it is suggested by scientific studies from the University of Almería, that crops purify the air and reduce the climate change effects on the region.
Vicasol takes care of the integral management of its partners’ waste by collaborating with different recycling stations and landfills from the cities where we are based and our aim is to treat materials like plastic, wood and plant residues properly. We also provide our partners with a waste recycling centre for the containers of products used in greenhouses.
Vicasol is strongly committed with people and focuses its management on the human workforce. People are our objective. The respect we have for people’s dignity and essential rights is demonstrated by actively coordinating the rights and opportunities equality principle with a non-discriminating diversity management.
We directly collaborate with Government agencies, non-profit making organizations like La Caixa Foundation, Cáritas, Noesso, the Spanish Red Cross and Councils that support labor hiring and integration for both women in risk of social exclusion and migrant collectives that are part of integration programs.
Through joining APROA’s “Distribución gratuita” action, we collaborate and send product surpluses to food banks all around the national territory.
Regarding the health field, among other actions, we have an annual program to spread healthy habits among children.
Some of our initiatives are: Coexplay with Coexphal, “Conoce tu pueblo” with the Council of Vícar, as well as summer camps around the provinces, healthy get-togethers and street markets, etc.
Moreover, we support culture and sports: We take part in hiking trails, chess and archery championships, as well as in the festivities of the cities where we are based.
Our cooperative has its own Code of Conduct in which we express our commitment to operate through respect and support to the rule of law, human rights and the civil liberties stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations, as well as to the protection of our clients’ interests.
The Vicasol team keeps working every day to continuously improve. We want to keep making a living from agriculture and contributing to a better world at the same time.
1. To produce the best food with reliability and to guarantee their availability to meet the client’s needs.
2. To achieve the maximum technical productivity, thanks to an optimal planification that seeks the highest commercial benefit for the farmer.
3. Transparency and equal treatment in the rights and obligations of partners.
4. To develop the technical and emotional talent of people.
5. To provide Vicasol partners with an exclusive services portfolio that allows farmers to produce with quality. Services like:
✔ Technical support, job hazard prevention, exclusive lab, supply depot, etc.
✔ Tax, employment, administration consultancy and financial aid management.
✔ Gas stations, shops, trips, dinners, get togethers.
6. We arrive at wherever it is logistically possible
7. We are stronger together. We want to build a sustainable future so that we can make a living from agriculture another 40 years more and, for that reason, we are sustainably growing our products at the present.
