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Today’s Highlights

We now have 145 Sustainability Programmes across the world that touch the lives of 3.5 million farmers in 32 countries. Our move into upstream plantations and farms as well as our increased activity in processing has enabled us to take more control of our supply chain. We recently footprinted 6 key locations – Australia, California, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Indonesia, Vietnam and will follow this up with the goal of completing all locations by 2015.


Certification

  • FSC™: Largest FSC™ certified forestry manager 1.3 million hectares in the Republic of Congo
  • Rainforest Alliance cocoa 18,280 tonnes and coffee 750 tonnes – Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria


Olam Livelihood Charter 2013

  • 20 qualifying initiatives in 9 countries
  • 313,476 farmers – Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ghana, Colombia
  • 19.2% women farmers
  • 7,664 farmer groups
  • 73% of farmers with mobile phones
  • 516,425 hectares
  • 1.65 hectares per farmer (average)
  • 37,682 GPS mapped farms
  • US $117.1 million on short-term farmer finance
  • US $1.5 million on long-term farmer finance
  • US $3.8 million invested in training
  • 5,583 training days
  • 1,425,850 seedlings provided
  • 344,562 bags of fertiliser provided

 

Community Development 2010-2013

 

Education
Primary schools 2 built
School materials 20,979 pupil beneficiaries
School rehabilitation 14
School scholarships 15
Financial support for education 1,200 beneficiaries(200 women)
Health
Health centres 3 built
Medical laboratory 1 built
Maternity unit 1 built
HIV/AIDS & long-term programmes 99,681 beneficiaries
Provision of basic healthcare 12,035 beneficiaries
Vaccines for immunisation 3,142
Infrastructure
Post-harvest warehouses 7
Seedling nurseries 94
Solar dryers 252
Farmer district centres 6
Bore holes 4

 

Processing – country examples

  • Cotton operation saving 6,000 tonnes of CO2 annually – Australia

  • Rice facility burning rice husks saving 1,000 tonnes of fuel annually – India

  • Tomato plant saving 204 million litres of water annually – USA