Tanzania

Olam has established a significant presence in Tanzania across 7 locations, since starting operations here in 1994.

We manage integrated supply chains for 5 main products: cashew, cotton, sesame, cocoa, and green coffee, employing 130 staff and more than 1,300 seasonal workers at peak season.

Get in touch with our Tanzania team:

tanzania@olamnet.com

Our 2,000 hectare certified green Arabica coffee plantation is located in the Songea Rural District of Southern Tanzania along the Ruvuma River, and is managed to strict environmental and social standards by our AVIV Tanzania subsidiary. We are proud that Olam Aviv was the first agri-business globally and first business in Africa to have a site achieve the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard. Certified by Rainforest Alliance/UTZ and 4C, the plantation employs many people from the local community and has invested in social infrastructure.

In overseeing every stage of the supply chain across our products, from origination through to distribution, we add value for our customers and help them manage their risks more effectively.

Find out more about our products:

Coffee Find out more

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Cotton Find out more

Sesame Find out more

Cashews Find out more

Crèche for flourishing minds

The crèche at Aviv coffee plantation is hoping to make tremendous changes to the community. During peak season, Aviv employs a little over 1,000 casual workers on the plantation overseeing an array of tasks. The majority of these workers are women from the neighbouring villages working in the nursery, weeding the fields, harvesting coffee and tending to pulped coffee in parchment. The children are provided with nourishment and a vibrant stimulating environment for them to flourish while their parents are at work. The crèche also includes a learning room with books and craft materials for at the children’s disposal, a playground outside to create a balanced and safe environment to nurture the young minds.

Meet The Team

We work with over 2000 people across 7 locations.

Aranyak Sanyal Country Head, Tanzania

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26^th Sep, 2019

Press release

Olam shares tech with Wildlife Conservation Society’s landscape partnership to tackle deforestation

London Collaboration will improve coffee farmer productivity and livelihoods while reducing pressure on the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Indonesia Over 20,000 smallholder coffee farmers in southern Sumatra will benefit from a unique collaboration whereby global food and agri-business Olam International will grant use of its platform, the Olam Farmer Information System (OFIS), to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to tackle forest encroachment in the Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBSNP) landscape in southern Sumatra. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of coffee, with the majority grown by smallholder farmers in remote areas. The farmers face common challenges such as ageing trees, a lack of access to inputs, training and finance, and therefore typically have low yields. Their remoteness, and the length and complexity of the supply chain also makes traceability difficult. The Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (3,140 km2) in southern Sumatra is within one of Ind

20^th Sep, 2019

News

Setting the record straight on false allegations in World Rainforest Movement’s petition about Olam’s palm plantations in Gabon

In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, we want to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon. The petition makes three allegations: 1) Olam has deforested within traditional areas of the communities of Nanga and Ferra to create palm plantations; 2) we have expanded into the village lands on the left bank of the Dola river against the consent of the communities; 3) we have not fulfilled our promises to provide support to these villages. These allegations are false and unfounded. We want to set the record straight by sharing the facts, along with photographs and maps, to show what we are doing to conserve landscapes and support these communities in Gabon:

10^th Oct, 2019

Blog

The partnership re-imagining the rice value chain in Nigeria

In conversation with Reji George, VP Rice Nigeria, Olam International and Dr Ben Odoemena, Country Programme Officer, UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – finalists of the 2019 P3 Impact Award in recognition of one of the first public-private partnerships to have transformative impact in Nigeria’s agricultural sector. The Value Chain Development Program (VCDP) established in 2015 by Olam, in partnership with the Nigerian Government and IFAD, is working to improve the livelihoods of smallholder rice farmers in Nigeria by increasing food security, creating jobs and opening market access.

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