Savory Lotus

Traceback your sesame

and explore your

impact on the people

and the environment

Creating a

FAIR ECONOMY

100%

of the EoL farmers have contact-bound long-term relationships with companies they’re supplying to.

Creating a

FAIR SOCIETY

100%

of the small farmers of EoL are provided capacity building and technical training on the methods of the biodynamic agriculture

Life Long Learning &

WELLBEING

10%

of the working time in Isis and Lotus factories is dedicated to art and self-development activities; to promote wellbeing and happiness at work.

Protecting the

ENVIRONMENT

10%

of cultivated farmland is dedicated to biodiversity, giving a home to bees, birds, and pollinators and creating a healthy farm ecosystem.

Farming

The savory is grown in Egypt; on farms Located in Wahat Al-Bahareya. They are Demeter-certified farms that grow under the principle of the highest form of organic agriculture known as biodynamic, providing the highest quality products and enriches biodiversity.

The Economy of Love farmers are demonstrating the effectiveness of mitigating climate change through sustainable agricultural practices and simoultaniously generating more income through the production of EoL Carbon Credits.

The savory is dried on the field in special drying areas to protect them from any sand and other pollution possibilities.

EoL provides guidance and support for small-scale farmers through engineers offering their consultancies every step of the way, to ensure the effective guidance throughout the agricultural seasons and providing them with funds and the necessary tools to facilitate their transition.

Meet the Farmers

Get to the Source of Production

Waleed

Farmer in El Wahat El Bahareya, Egypt

Waleed is an agriculture engineer in Wahat SEKEM. His children study at SEKEM school, also his wife teaches Arabic there. They are living a wonderful new experience surrounded by calming beautiful places. He’s a hard worker farmer trying to cover all the herbs needed in the market.

Processing

After receiving the raw material from the farms in recyclable plastic bags samples are taken to the labs to ensure the compliance with organic/biodynamic standards. The savory is going through cleaning processes where it is being sieved and/or milled with multiple machines and ready to be packed.

The savory goes to CO2 fumigation chamber for disinfesting to prevent and get rid of any pests in the grains as it’s toxic for insects.

The organic wastes are sent to sites to be reused either as compost or animal fodder.

Factory workers work in safe conditions and receive health consultancies (in topics such as nutrition, physiotherapy, and lifestyle coaching) to promote well-being in the workplace.

Packing

After cleaning, the savory is filled into 20Kg paper bags and labeled with most important information. Then a final Sample is withdrawn for another microbiology analysis lab. Finally the already packed product is waiting for the Loading Date.

Before the savory enters a container it has to be treated again with CO2 to make sure that we do not get any insects or pests into the Container.

During the processing they are kept in these blue polyethylene bags that are recyclable.

iSiS factory sells their non-organic waste left from the processing stage to external recycling entities in Egypt.

Distribution

The savory is loaded into containers, trucks, or cars and delivered either to ISIS company or shipped into the world. In 16 different countries around the world.

iSiS always opts for sea freight and only makes the decision to use air freight on the rare occasion that a client orders a small amount that can not be transported by sea.

The company’s transportation emissions are calculated and monitored to actively work on finding ways to reduce the emissions and then offsetting the rest that can’t be helped. Check out iSiS’s assigned credits.

Drivers have a limit on the number of hours they can drive per day, to ensure their safety.

Check out where your product has been!

Agro Sourcing

ESAT Les Cigales Jean Paour

Packaging facility

Meet the Employees

The people who processed, packaged and distributed your product

Hassan

Factory Engineer in Lotus

Hassan is in charge of the raw cleaning and packing machine in the processing facility of Lotus. Since 17 years he is working in Lotus and enjoys that work here is combined with culture program.

Marwa

Quality Manager in IsIs

Marwa has been working in the tea department of IsIs factory for more than 8 years. Together with her husband and two children she lives on the Sekem mother farm.

Ahmed

Factory Engineer at SEKEM

Ahmed has been working in SEKEM for four years, and lives right next to the SEKEM farm with his family.

Abdallah

Distributor in SEKEM

Abdallah has been an employee in SEKEM for over five years. He is responsible for distributing the finished products to stores all over Cairo.

What is the True Price?

Are there hidden costs that the price doesn't reflect?

True Price Comparision

Sustainably and ethically produced products add value to society and the environment. However, when comparing prices, we don’t take into account the long-term and externalized impact of the products we purchase.

When calculating and comparing the true price of the product we don’t consider the long-term impact of the product. For example, the cultivation of this sesame produces around 0.39 kg Co2-eq per kilo of sesame, costing society up to 0.044 USD/Kilo.

We encourage you to compare products based on their true price; the price that reflects the hidden costs that we and future generations eventually pay for.

This cultivation of the Sesame emits up to

0.2 Kg Co2-eq/package

Examples of Hidden Costs

Costs that are not reflected on the price tag, but are eventually paid by society

WATER

REPROCESSING COST

Society is paying taxes to clean water sources from agriculture’s chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, as well as the irresponsible disposal of wastewater from factories, in order to make it usable/drinkable water.