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

24^th Nov, 2020

Press release

Cascara iced tea to traceable cocoa: Olam Food Ingredients demonstrates the art of natural innovation at Fi Connect

London Olam Food Ingredients ("OFI"), one of the world's leading providers of cocoa, coffee, nuts, spices and dairy, is showcasing creative ingredients and solutions in its first virtual exhibit launched during Fi Europe Connect, Europe's largest gathering of food and beverage professionals. Visitors are able to freely navigate through interactive zones on the digital platform to access and engage with rich content on OFI’s portfolio of “on-trend” and healthy products, across categories ranging from snacking to beverages. With a focus on creative ingredients, showcased products will include deZaan D11MG – Ghana single-origin cocoa powder, anti-oxidant rich cascara (coffee cherry) iced tea, and GardenFrost™, Olam Spices’ proprietary purée line and the most operationally efficient, clean label purée on the market, across multiple product applications. They can also experience AtSource, Olam's revolutionary insights platform that provides food brands and manufacturers with v

2^nd Nov, 2020

News

Launch of digital initiative will strengthen support and engagement with rural communities in Republic of Congo

Operating in the north of the Republic of the Congo, Congoalise Industrielle des Bois has been present in the region since 1968. The Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team of CIB have immense knowledge about the region. Every week they go out on the field to sensitise the communities and indigenous populations on various themes pertaining to health, safety, rights, and family related issues. Earlier this year, we launched Project OKA, where audio related to various topics was recorded in Lingala and Mbengele in questions-answers format, and saved in devices for the communities to listen. However, there is a human element in these visits that no device or technology can replace. When the members of the social teams return, they report their observations over discussions or emails to the team. This deep understanding of the region is always supported with pictures, videos, audio interviews. However, this fragmentation of the knowledge, and the loss in narrative when the emplo

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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