Barnana was one of the first food brands to use upcycled raw ingredients to make its products and reduce climate-harming food waste. To date, Barnana has upcycled millions of plantains and bananas and helped catalyze the burgeoning upcycled food movement.
Women-led start-ups are cutting out the middlemen between organic farmers and supermarkets, helping raise food security and improving farmers' lives.
From Brazil to Ecuador's Amazon, women entrepreneurs are working to boost small-scale and organic farming as fears grow of a global food crisis
The momentous energy gathering for this year’s Earth Day is palpable and Barnana is proud to do its part for our planet by helping explain the power of upcycled foods to reduce food waste.
We owe our success to the small farmers, many of whom are indigenous to the Amazon, who grow top-quality organic bananas and plantains using regenerative practices that rebuild and restore soil biodiversity. As our business expands, we want to share our success with our fruit growers and help transition more farmers to using these methods.