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

3^rd Jul, 2020

Press release

Sustainable cashew: Working with farmers the co-operative way

On this year’s International Day of Cooperatives, Mallikarjuna Kumaraswamy, Vice President for OIam’s cashew business explains 3 ways the cooperative model is helping reimagine sustainable cashew supply chains We source much of our cashew from 100 partner co-ops across rural Africa and Asia, representing over 50,000 smallholder farmers who rely on it as a source of income and food security. They afford the farmers access to information, inputs, credit and markets, allowing them to produce more and better quality through the power of the collective. For partners like Olam in the nut sector, they offer a resilient and sustainable sourcing model for our various cashew nuts and butters to satisfy the growing trend in conscious and healthy snacking. Leaving no one behind For all our boots on the ground, Olam’s 109 agronomists and extension workers can’t reach the millions of cashew smallholders in rural communities. In Africa, they sell their raw cashew to a complex network of local trad

20^th Jun, 2020

News

Minutes of the 25th Annual General Meeting

Please refer to the attachment. 20 Jun 2020 - Olam Minutes of AGM FY2019

2^nd Jul, 2020

Blog

Educating children on COVID-19 prevention and child labour in Côte d’Ivoire

Recently, children in the cocoa growing communities we work with in Côte d’Ivoire came together to celebrate the International Day of the African Child, which raises awareness of the challenges children face in Africa, with a focus on improving access to quality education. During the pandemic, this message is more vital than ever. Schools were closed to slow the spread of the virus, disrupting children’s learning and increasing the risk of child labour as they were kept home on family farms at a time when it was hard for farmers to employ other labour. So, as pupils returned to school, we partnered with the Dominique Ouattara School Complex, constructed in 2015 through funds from Olam Cocoa, to teach them about COVID-19 prevention, boost their enthusiasm for education and learning, and show we cannot let the pandemic damage children’s futures through increased risk of child labour. Over the course of the day, the pupils were visited by an award-winning youth theatre group who perfor

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