Brazil

Brazil was Olam’s first country of operation in Latin America, starting with our cashew trading business in 2002.

We then expanded into coffee, cotton, cocoa, grains, spices and vegetable ingredients, as well as risk management solutions. Headquartered in São Paulo, we are supported by over 1500 dedicated employees across the country.

Get in touch with our Brazil team:

brazil@olamnet.com

Growing responsibly

All of our procurement in Brazil comes under the Olam Supplier Code, which provides a comprehensive set of conditions to support our goal to purchase raw materials and products that are produced in a manner that is socially responsible, economically profitable and environmentally sustainable. We are also working with smallholder farmers to improve yields and incomes.

Our employees are actively initiating and participating in community programmes focused on promoting child welfare, education and health. And we have joined various industry bodies to further the cause for sustainable economic development, such as CECAFE (Coffee) and AIPC Cocoa Processors Association (AIPC).

Find out more about our products:

Coffee Find out more

Cocoa Find out more

Spices Find out more

Grains and Feed Find out more

Cotton Find out more

Meet the Team

We employ over 1500 people across 31 locations

M. Sathyamurthy Regional Head, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay

Also in the News

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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