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communities and our world.

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Whether its working with coffee farmers in Africa, growing our almonds in Australia, or developing innovative cocoa and spice ingredients in the USA, we help our customers meet increasing consumer demands for sustainable sourcing and healthy foods.

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Olam’s AtSource Wins 2020 Reuters Responsible Supply Chain Award

Revolutionary sustainability insights platform showcases how social and environmental risks are being managed and monitored.

New ‘lens’ on the future of coffee

Olam Coffee, one of the leading green coffee origin exporters and part of Olam Food Ingredients, has announced its vision for the future of the coffee sector.

Improving every day for rural women

Olam’s ambition to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods cannot be fully achieved without addressing gender equality.

Olam secures Singapore’s first SORA-pegged club loan of SGD200 million with DBS and ICBC

Global food and agri-business Olam International Limited (Olam) has secured Singapore’s first club loan pegged to the Singapore Overnight Rate Average (SORA) with DBS Bank (DBS) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Singapore Branch (ICBC Singapore).

Olam joins forces with roasters to protect Brazil’s coffee farmers during COVID-19

Over 5,000 Brazilians have received hygiene supplies to keep them safe during the busy coffee harvest season.

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Across 6 continents, our farms, buying teams and processing facilities are based at the heart of production for more secure supply and access to markets.

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Living our purpose

With our sector facing huge challenges, we aim to re-imagine global agriculture so that it is better for the estimated 5 million farmers in our extended supply chain, their communities and our planet.

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How we are re-imagining global agriculture?

Our Purpose extends beyond our own boundaries and is driven from the grass roots of our business. A movement has started within Olam, and it’s being led by our most passionate and committed people.

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Young children studying in a community school for coffee growers in Africa, Tanzania, co-founded and supported by Olam.

Why agriculture needs re-imagining

As one of the world’s leading agri-businesses we have a responsibility to help create and sustain living landscapes, where prosperous farmers, thriving rural communities, and healthy ecosystems coexist.

“Our teams are focused on overcoming the complexities facing our customers and their global supply chains. We know this can only be achieved over the long-term by creating value for all stakeholders, aiming to put more back into food and farming systems than is taken out.”

Sunny Verghese

Co-Founder and Group CEO

20^th Oct, 2020

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Olam’s AtSource Wins 2020 Reuters Responsible Supply Chain Award

Revolutionary sustainability insights platform showcases how social and environmental risks are being managed and monitored London AtSource, a revolutionary sustainability insights platform developed by global food and agri-business Olam to provide actionable data for manufacturing and retail customers of the third-party supply chains for products like coffee, cocoa, cashew, cotton, and rice, has just won the 2020 Reuters Responsible Supply Chain Award. The Reuters Responsible Business Awards recognise leading strategies shaping the future of sustainable business. The judging panel, drawn from business, media, NGOs, and academia, said of Olam's winning submission: “AtSource is a highly innovative and scalable plus well-established model that allows Olam's customers - for the first time – to track the social and environmental footprint of a product from the farmer group, to their factory gate. It uses 150 economic, social and environmental metrics, bringing transparency to what has

6^th Oct, 2020

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Does Your Sustainability Reporting Start At The Source?

Sustainability reporting requires a lot of work, and it's only going to get more difficult over time as communities expect more from businesses and businesses demand more from themselves. That's where AtSource comes in, and why it's always getting better. AtSource CEO Roel Van Poppel explains… The sustainability challenges facing our world and the efforts to meet them are immense. A variety of entities monitor and rate the activities of large businesses, including those in the food and agri-business industries. In fact, because their supply chains touch the farthest, most remote, and often the poorest communities on the planet, much is expected from them concerning how their operations impact and improve health, environmental, financial, and social well-being.

9^th Oct, 2020

Blog

Improving every day for rural women

Olam’s ambition to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods cannot be fully achieved without addressing gender equality. A fundamental human right, gender equality is also strongly linked to agricultural productivity and social and economic development. As women, we are personally as well as professionally committed to improving the lives of women every day. Yet in many rural communities where we work, women have vastly unequal decision-making power, control over use of income, and access to education, finance, land, and inputs. Entrenched social barriers keep them from accessing productive resources and even household decisions. They are often responsible for duties, such as gathering water and laborious food preparation that can involve hours of husking, cleaning, and pounding rice or maize for it to reach the form that wealthier consumers buy off the supermarket shelves. This then limits or denies them time to engage in remunerative activities or attend training on how to improve the

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Careers at Olam

Around the world, we have careers for agronomists, traders, food scientists, sales and marketing professionals, and many others. We are always on the lookout for talented people.

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Q&A with Kennedy Ntoso, Head of Olam Cocoa Sustainability (Ghana) around gender mainstreaming in agriculture and the private sector’s role.

Annual Report

By simplifying our businesses across two distinct and coherent groups, each with a clear vision for profitable and sustainable growth, it sharpens our focus and provides opportunities to capitalise on key market trends, while continuing to leverage the benefits of the Olam Group.

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Since our first cashew trade in 1989, we’ve become a global leader in nuts, vegetables, cocoa, spices, coffee and cotton.

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Re-imagining Global Agriculture and Food Systems

to provide food, feed and fibre that's better for farmers,

communities and our world.

At the heart of agri and ingredient supply chains