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South Organic is a small business based in Kebili that packages and markets dates. Founded by a social entrepreneur, South Organic is now the country’s third largest exporter of organic dates and has a modern, high-quality packaging plant.
Tunisia was the first country of the ‘Arab Spring’ to initiate a peaceful democratisation process, which gradually faded in recent years before finally culminating in the election of an authoritarian president who suspended the gains of the revolution. The country has few natural resources and survives on tourism and remittances from a diaspora that has sought exile in Europe in recent years.
While developing its commercial activity, South Organic aims to preserve the country’s date palm oasis ecosystem by promoting the rational and prudent use of water and developing organic farming among farmers.
