Sustainability Framework

Our vision is to deliver a triple positive impact in the places where we source and grow our products.

We work across our businesses, and with our partners, to create and sustain living landscapes, where prosperous farmers, thriving rural communities, and healthy ecosystems co-exist.

Over 1,000 dedicated staff embedded in businesses, countries and functions across the world help us to deliver our strategy and targets, helping us to make the business resilient and deliver long-term value for Olam and our stakeholders.

Our Purpose to Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems within our boundary of Growing Responsibly is integral to our Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability framework.

We have 10 priority areas (also known as ‘material areas’). We have mapped these to the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the 9 Planetary Boundaries identified by the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

We report on our progress in our Annual Report and separate Global Reporting Initiative Report. Our most recent report can be found in our Investor Relations Library within this site.

We are guided by our sustainability principles:

To:

improve the livelihoods of farmers and communities through initiatives that enhance productivity and return
unlock mutual value with all our partners through collaboration
understand and mitigate our environmental footprint
ensure a safe, healthy and productive workplace for our people
participate in professional associations to further develop our key goals

The latest news

15^th Sep, 2020

Press release

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. Brazil When COVID-19 reached Brazil ahead of the coffee harvest season, the first thoughts of smallholder Ivone Corsi da Silva were of how she could keep supporting her family, including her pregnant daughter and several other children with pre-existing health problems, without putting them at risk. Ivone is one of over 5,000 beneficiaries of hygiene items and health education materials provided as part of a COVID-19 intervention campaign in the coffee growing regions of Brazil by Olam Coffee, Folgers (part of The J.M. Smucker Company) and Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee. Commenting on the support she received: “The kits came at the right time for us. I have already distributed the masks and sanitisers to everyone in my family and we are all using them.” 300 relief kits – containing a total of 8,850 masks, 1,385 hand sanitisers and 194 litres of environmental disinfectants

3^rd Sep, 2020

News

Digital business breakthrough in Ghana

First smartphone food B2B App transforms grocery distribution and fuels Olam's digital expansion plans in West Africa Olam Markets, Ghana's first and only B2B mobile app in the food sector, has made such a positive impact with grocery distributors that its owner, global food and agri-business Olam International, is now planning to take the app into West Africa. Developed for the distributors of various foods businesses of Olam Ghana, including staples such as Royal Aroma Rice and First Choice Flour, culinary products such as Tasty Tom Tomato Mix, and branded snack foods such as Nutrisnax Biscuits, the app launched on June 24, 2019 after multiple rounds of testing in Accra and other towns, as well as the involvement of a team of young Ghanaians fresh from their year of post-tertiary education national service. The app added an average of 50 distributors each month, and, in little over a year, is today used by 90% of distributors supplying retailers with packaged foods processed a

17^th Aug, 2020

Blog

Olam celebrates its place in Cameroon history

2020 marks 25 years of company “Re-imagining Global Agriculture and Food Systems” with the country This year marks 25 years since Cameroon became a vital part of the Olam’s international story and its long-term contribution to this country’s economy and food security. Today, Olam Cameroon is a leading business in the country operating cocoa, grains, and rice across all its 10 regions. Since Olam Cameroon was established in 1995, the company and the country have been working as partners in progress. Domestically, it has been a story of corporate commitment to the economic growth of the country, to creating jobs for its dynamic young workforce, and to delivering quality food products to Cameroonian customers and consumers. Collectively, Olam’s initiatives in both Cameroon and around the world have reflected the company’s strategy for responding to the many challenges in meeting the needs of a growing global population. While at the same time achieving positive impact for farming c

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