Mozambique

Olam began operations here in Mozambique in 1999. Today, we are one of the largest employers, with over 500 staff and 1,250 seasonal workers operating across 3 locations.

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mozambique@olamnet.com

With nearly 20 years’ experience and an extensive distribution network spanning most of Mozambique’s towns, our rice business has flourished launching award-winning brands such as Mama Africana, Tio António, Saboroso and Royal Aroma.

We continue to grow our edible oils distribution business through this same network. Our 2 refining facilities in Sofala and Maputo Provinces are providing further synergies between our edible oil processing and distribution business. Our brands include Dona, Sunseed and Diolivia Sabor and most recently, Dioliva Seasoning Oil. We also produce household names in the soap market such as the Bingo, and the antibacterial soaps, Cristal, and Coral.

In addition to our rice and edible oils operations, we also generate jobs at our Ribáuè cotton ginning facility.

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Cotton bolls growing in Mozambique, Olam sources from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Fresh fruit bunch of palm, cut to show the source of palm oil. Olam's oils portfolio includes palm, soybean and sunflower.

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Mature rice crop, grown in India, Thailand, Vietnam and Nigeria, Olam.

Rice Find out more

Meet the Team

We employ nearly 2,000 people across operations in Mozambique.

Manual cashew sorting in ou rproessing facility in Mozambique, Olam.

Sridhar Krishnan Senior Vice President and Cluster Head, East Africa

News, Views and Insights

20^th Oct, 2020

Press release

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

18^th Sep, 2020

Press release

Olam urges international brands to adopt new rice eco-label to allow consumers to support farmers and promote sustainable rice production

London Olam International is calling for retailers and food brands to back the new “Sustainable Rice Platform-Verified” Assurance Scheme and consumer pack label1, which will allow consumers to choose products that directly support efforts to increase farmer incomes and reduce the environmental impact of rice production. Speaking ahead of UN Climate Week, Paul Nicholson, Head of Rice Research and Sustainability for Olam’s global rice business said, “Unlike crops such as coffee and cocoa, consumers have no awareness of the sustainability issues associated with rice, and therefore, no impetus to change them. This label can help galvanise consumer action behind rice – an affordable food that’s unique in its international appeal and the largest food source on earth. “I know that a label cannot transform a sector overnight, but it can give consumers a chance to catalyse real change. It can give brands a purpose-driven marketing campaign and allow brands and retailers to lead from the fro

1^st Dec, 2020

Blog

A Sustainable, Equitable Food System Needs to be Nourished at the Source

COVID-19 has exposed many of the vulnerabilities in our food system, one of which is just how reliant global supply chains are on people’s well-being at every step of the journey. The small-scale farmers in emerging markets who produce much of the world’s food ingredients, live in countries that face high rates of malnutrition, with many farming households unable to eat healthily themselves. The strong link between health and agricultural productivity is one of the reasons nutrition has moved up the sustainability agenda for Olam. Malnutrition is said to cost the private sector as much as $850 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a recent Chatham House reporti, with much of this borne by the ag sector given the labour intensity of farming. So as a business that plans to run efficiently for the next 30, 50 years and beyond, helping to reduce malnutrition in the communities where we operate is actually a down payment on future productivity. Financial incentive aside,

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