Visiting our extended family, farming Yacon in Peru

At Alovitox, the efforts don't stop at a USDA Organic label, we are more interested in the livelihoods of the communities involved, the sustainability of the farmers, and farming itself that brings this product to market.

This is why we travel to Peru, to form personal relationships with farmers and our manufacturing plant employees. This is how we create sustainability all along the chain, and not just one part of the process.

In this video you can see our founder, Aria, having traveled to the foot of the Andes in Peru during the harvest of the Yacon Root, to assist and verify the sustainability and longevity of the process.

By creating market share via customer education, we are in turn increasing farmer sustainability, and allowing the farmers and their families to maintain their lifestyle without having to abandon farms and move to bigger cities for better paying jobs. Since 2017, we have increased the acreage from 12 to over 100 in 2020 for growing our own yacon. This has created jobs and opportunities in places where very little is being done to support the farmers and their future.

This is how we believe Alovitox can have the biggest impact on farmers and their communities, by creating a direct line for the consumers of our products to sustain and expand the farming communities in the middle of the jungles of Peru.