IT was a happy day, a happy week. It was mango harvest week in the Aeta Indigenous community in Zambales and Juan Garcia, a tribal leader, and members of his village were leading us to their mango trees in the mountain area.

They were harvesting fair-trade, organically-certified mangoes that would be processed in a factory into mango puree, packed into sealed bags and steel drums and shipped to Germany to be used in organic foods. It had been three years since the organic, naturally-flowering mango trees in the mountains had given a harvest.