Companies that are part of the Gioosto

At Gioosto only productive realities are selected that focus on respecting people's labor, the environment and caring for those in fragile states, creating projects for social and labor inclusion.

Who are the producers of Gioosto:

  • Small organic businesses that have a deep respect for the environment and the land they work,
  • Social Cooperatives that, through the employment and social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities or frail persons, make products with raw materials of excellence,
  • Social projects that aim to reintegrate prisoners into the workforce,
  • Farms that provide fair wages to their workers while preserving the environment and recovering crops that have disappeared,
  • Associations working the land confiscated from the mafia by reviving the land where the underworld used to reign.

 

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Agricoltura Capodarco

Agricoltura Capodarco is a social cooperative established in Grottaferrata, Rome, more than 30 years ago. It specializes in the production of vegetables, wine, oil, honey and biscuits.

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Altereco

Cerignola, Apulian hinterland. Olives and the fruits of the earth cultivated in this bountiful area immediately come to mind, but also mafia and caporalato.

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Altraqualità

A fair trade cooperative, Altraqualità was founded in 2002 and since then has been importing and distributing craft and food products made in the Global South throughout Italy.

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Altromercato

Love for people, the planet and a lot of healthy recklessness. These were the sparks that, in 1988, led three young men from South Tyrol, Heini, Rudi and Antonio to leave their secure jobs and throw their hearts over the hurdle to start Altromercato.

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Arci

One of Italy's largest cultural and social promotion associations, with hundreds of thousands of members and associates and many associations, clubs, people's houses, mutual aid societies throughout Italy. All this is Arci.

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Articioc

Articioc in Parmesan dialect means "artichoke," a symbol to represent the lessons this vegetable gives us:

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Asphodel

Asphodel is a group of small Sardinian beekeepers who decided to react to the climate crisis by offering healthy honey.

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Banda Biscotti

The Cookie Band's project is clear: through work to reconnect relationships and give people a chance to live a "normal" life.

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Biova

Against food waste comes Biova, the circular economy beer that recovers bread before it becomes waste for disposal.

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Boniviri

The Boniviri benefit company was born in Sicily from the union of forces and intentions of Corrado, Sergio and Alessandra, united by the dream of valuing the work of deserving agricultural entrepreneurs, protecting the environment and giving new meaning to eating well.

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Cambalache

Cambalache was founded in 2011 in Alexandria with the aim of providing assistance to asylum seekers and holders of international protection by providing an additional "service," that of employment.

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Casa do menor

Saving children is saving the present and the future of us and humanity. Since 1986, Casa Do Menor has been fighting against intolerance, exclusion and violence on Brazilian streets.

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Chico Mendes Modena

The Chico Mendes Modena cooperative is named after seringueiro Chico Mendes, the rubber picker from the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon, who dedicated his entire life to the fight against deforestation.

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Consorzio Sale della Terra

The Salt of the Earth Consortium brings together 15 social, agricultural and renewable energy cooperatives in the Benevento area. In an inland, marginal area at great risk of abandonment, only a courageous choice has been able to reactivate agricultural and artisan enterprises to enhance local specificities. 

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Coop Eva - le ghiottonerie di casa Lorena

Against violence and for the rights of women and children, this is the mission of EVA Cooperative, which promotes the exercise of basic civil rights, the protection of the rights of children and adolescents, and respect for all diversity. 

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Cooperativa goccia

A Cooperative is born in the province of Imperia that reclaims abandoned land, creating opportunities for rebirth for people in a state of fragility. 

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Cooperativa Lazzarelle

Lazzarelle Cooperative, established in 2010, is a social enterprise that produces coffee in the Pozzuoli Women's Prison. An all-female challenge that enhances artisanal knowledge and creates social inclusion.

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Cooperativa sociale al di là dei sogni

Naples and its surroundings, difficult territories, widespread petty crime and the brutality of the New Organized Camorra. On the other side, a group of young people engaged in the paths of volunteer work and property confiscated from the Mafia.

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Cooperativa Sociale Campi d’Arte

From the sum of the founding members' experiences in the areas of training, job placement and handicrafts, the Campi d'Arte Social Cooperative was founded in 2004 in San Pietro in Casale. 

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Cooperativa sociale Contea

A multiservice cooperative active in the province of Udine, Contea was founded in 2014 offering its services in a variety of fields, from green maintenance to event organization, including social farming. 

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Cooperativa stalker

Named after the film of the same name, the Stalker Social Cooperative works in the area of social inclusion, especially for those with mental health problems, who through work can find spaces of autonomy and freedom.  

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Cotti in Fragranza

Citrus peels, Sicilian air, young enthusiasm: a few simple ingredients, carefully mixed to give life to the baked goods of Cotti in Fragranza. A project characterized not only by very high quality but also by great social impact. 

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Ecozema

The company's first plant was established in the early 1900s with the production of large wooden pliers for the tanning industry, which later became the wooden and plastic clothespins for household use.

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Etnos

Established in 2005, the Ethnos Social Cooperative promotes and implements solidarity economy practices aimed at sustainable development through the application of fair trade principles.

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Fantasy Loppiano

For more than 50 years, Loppiano has been a small manufacturing hub of excellence producing works of art, ceramic creations, and textiles for children, all strictly Made in Italy and handcrafted by realities that put quality materials, ethical production and respect for the environment first.

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Fattorie solidali

The social cooperative Fattorie Solidali was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the agricultural sector of the Alicenova Social Cooperative, a historic cooperative in the Viterbo area with 30 years' experience in personal services.

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Felici da Matti

There are no magic formulas for creating jobs...we need to invest in people's intelligence and hearts.

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Filo e fibra

Filo e Fibra is the Women's Community Cooperative established in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the beating heart of the province of Siena, between Val D'Orcia and Val di Chiana.

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Focsiv

Focsiv is the Federation of Christian International Voluntary Service Organizations, whose membership includes 87 NGOs operating in more than 80 countries around the world including Italy.

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Fuori di zucca

In the former Psychiatric Hospital in Aversa, the Fuori di Zucca Social Farm was born in 2000. 

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Germinal Bio

Germinal Bio da oltre 40 anni si occupa di garantire la qualità dei prodotti alimentari senza coloranti, conservanti, additivi e OGM.

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Girolomoni

Going beyond organic: that is the ambitious goal of Girolomoni, the company founded in the hills of the Marche, straddling two regions and driven by a love of the land and its people. 

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Goel bio

GOEL Bio aggregates Calabrian farms that oppose the 'ndrangheta and build sustainable development of the territory. It was founded in 2009 within GOEL - Cooperative Group.

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I Benedettini

The farm I Benedettini carries out its activities within the Cilento National Park, among the so-called "Colline Salernitane," where three small olive farms, have joined together to realize a bigger dream. 

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IDC Salumi

IDC Salumi produce gustosi salumi unendo la sapienza del Mastro salumiere Zio Giovanni alla professionalità dei titolari Francesco e Tonino.

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Impastarci - Carpanea

Un laboratorio dove ogni giorno viene prodotta pasta secca artigianale di alta qualità, questa è Carpanea, nata dall'idea della Cooperativa Sociale Impastarci che ogni giorno crea percorsi di inclusione sociale per persone in stato di fragilità.

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Iris Bio

Pasta Iris Bio was born in 1978 thanks to nine young people, the sons of laborers, bricklayers, milkers, laborers and artisans, Iris Bio today is an agricultural cooperative with more than 50 workers and has been producing without the use of synthetic chemicals for 40 years, in compliance with the Bio specification.

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L'arcolaio

Founded in Syracuse in 2003, the social cooperative L'Arcolaio with the aim of fostering the social and labor reintegration of inmates and other disadvantaged people, runs a food workshop inside the Prison and a social agriculture project in the heart of the Iblei Mountains.

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La banditaccia

La Banditaccia is an organic farm located on the slopes of Mount Amiata sacred to the Etruscans, with splendid 360-degree views of the nearby Val d'Orcia and other Tuscan landscapes in the area.

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La marca del consumatore

La Marca del Consumatore Pasta is the first 100% Italian pasta created by us! 

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Lanificio Leo

Lanificio Leo, active since 1873, is the oldest textile factory in Calabria. With the perfect balance of tradition and innovation, it produces garments and accessories in natural fibers processed with a mix of old technology and state-of-the-art equipment. 

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Le Erbe di Brillor

The agricultural company Le Erbe di Brillor, was founded in 2012 on the shores of Lake Alice Superiore, in the province of Turin, in the Cascina Meira farmhouse-laboratory. In this fairy-tale place, surrounded by nature and woods, is the company that produces 100% natural detergents and soaps.

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Le Moire

Located in the heart of Calabria, the Le Moire winery produces wine in a protected ecosystem where the wind that blows up the valley from the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea safeguards the health of the vines and allows the use of pesticides to be minimized.

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Lentamente

La Cooperativa Sociale Lentamente nasce nel 2014 con l’obiettivo di valorizzare terreni pubblici e a rischio abbandono nella provincia di Benevento.

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Libera Terra

Libera Terra is the agricultural soul of Libera that manages land and structures confiscated from the mafias in Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campania, involving other organic farmers in southern Italy in this productive revitalization activity.

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Litografi vesuviani

The Vesuvius Litographers Cooperative was founded in 2000 out of the need for psychiatric patients and families to find a dimension to participate in local social and economic life.  

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Made in Carcere

Made in Carcere is a brand born in 2007 thanks to Luciana Delle Donne, founder of Officina Creativa, a nonprofit social cooperative. 

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Made in Sipario

A small social cooperative, but more importantly, a real craft workshop where boys and girls with disabilities can get down to business in earnest. 

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Madreterra Caffè

A small company in Palermo that has combined a taste for coffee with a focus on sustainability. Madreterra Caffè born in 2016 offers fine blends in pods and compostable capsules, tea, herbal teas and sugar from fair-trade supply chains. 

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Manna madonita

A group of very young professionals taking care of ash trees and manna harvesting respecting the rhythms of the seasons within the Madonie Park to produce manna, sap and slow food presidium, this is Manna Madonita.

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Matematici per la città

The Cultural Association "Mathematicians for the City" was founded in December 2013 by a group of mathematics graduates from the Federico II University of Naples.

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Minimum Fax

Minimum Fax was founded in 1993 as a literary magazine also circulated by fax to studios and offices, and in 1994 the first books came out, on the writer's craft and everything revolving around the processes of writing, giving birth to the publishing house proper.

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MIR

A tailor-atelier established in 2013 in the heart of Orvieto, the MIR Cooperative accommodates "disadvantaged" individuals by creating textile products geared toward the recovery of craftsmanship and craftsmanship. 

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Pietra di Scarto

Each one grows only when dreamed of. Building a more equitable and inclusive society depends on the ability to generate opportunities for integration and redemption through work and continuing education.

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Pomario

The Pomario farm occupies a small hillock of about 10 hectares in the province of Perugia near Monteleone di Orvieto, in the border area between Tuscany and Umbria.

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Pralina

PR.ALI.NA is the acronym for PRoduzione ALImenti NAturali, is a Salento agribusiness, located in Melpignano (Lecce), which has taken up the challenge of transforming the agricultural riches of Salento, according to the ancient rules of the local culinary tradition, since its inception back in 1995.

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Punto Equo

Punto Equo was established as a cooperative in 2007 to promote fair trade products and values beyond traditional retail channels.

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Rigeneriamo

(Re)generate is a "benefit society" established in 2020 and as its name implies, it aims to be generative, implementing a new way of thinking and acting.

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Rifò

Rifò, the young startup that has made recovery its mission, was born in Prato in 2017. Inside the laboratories, rags and old clothes become the new raw materials for clothing and accessories, under the banner of ancient traditions such as that of the Tuscan "cenciaroli," who since the Middle Ages had specialized in recycling cloth and fabrics.

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Rigenera - Coop. Nazareth

Rigenera is the Social Farming experience of the Nazareth Social Cooperative through which frail people are able to find opportunities for growth, inclusion and employment in the horticultural production and agri-food processing sector.

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Rucolapiù

In the Sele Plain, in the province of Salerno, four women decide to return to the land and dedicate themselves to growing arugula, a herb valued since ancient times, when Greeks and Romans made love potions from it.

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Sanniolat

Sanniolat produce squisiti prodotti caseari beneventani.

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Senzaspine

SenzaSpine is a social regeneration project that restores value to the most resilient expressions of life.

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Solid Ale Beer

Catanzaro is home to the Solid Ale Beer microbrewery in which Alessandra, Ester, Federica, Manilo and Salvatore work: young people with cognitive disabilities or those with Down Syndrome who have discovered a job where they can fulfill themselves and find their role within society.

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Sprigioniamo sapori

The social cooperative Sprigioniamo sapori produces exceptional Sicilian sweets, such as almond cookies and creams or pistachio nougats, employing inmates from the prisons of Ragusa, Modica and Catania in a social and labor inclusion project in Sicily. 

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TEA Natura

TEA Natura, in business since 2003, produces eco-friendly detergents and natural cosmetics using natural materials, essences, and waste oils. Yes, because the frontier of personal and home care passes through "Re-Detergent" and the recycling of post-consumer oils that are treated, processed, and turned into detergents.

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Tenuta Santo Spirito

Tenuta Santo Spirito is a small, family-run winery located in the province of Ragusa, within the Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico area, in one of the most amazing and beautiful areas of southeastern Sicily.

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Utilità marginale

Enhancing social, cultural and economic marginalities through solidarity agriculture to make a positive contribution to the land and people, this is the goal of Utilià Marginale.

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Verbumcaudo

In the heart of Sicily, in the Madonie Mountains, the Verbumcaudo Social Cooperative works the eponymous feud confiscated from the Mafia, growing legumes, tomatoes, cereals, vineyards and olive groves, all strictly under organic regulations.

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Vigne di Malies

The Vigne di Malies winery is a small family-run business that, in the heart of Sannio Beneventano, produces the great native wines of the area. The Foschini family, proudly manages its vineyards with responsible production methods, in an artisanal and sustainable way.

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Yatra

"Yatra" in Hindi means "path." The path that this association aims to achieve is to make its contribution to the development of a more equitable and just economic system.

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