Strong focus on supply chain excellence to improve supplier engagement, mitigate supply chain risk, and provide rigorous, verifiable data for sustainability decision-making
ofi , a leading supplier of natural, premium food and beverage ingredients , has announced its new sustainability strategy, “Choices for Change”, and ambitious 2030 targets.
Global food brands and retailers face climate change and other challenges while facing growing consumer demand for sustainable products, and a wave of significant new sustainability legislation. Through Choices for Change, ofi offers these businesses and their consumers concrete options that will have a long-term impact on four key pillars: thriving farmers, vibrant communities, climate action, and regenerating a living world.
All of the 2030 goals of our Choices for Change strategy address key customer needs, including:
– Strengthen livelihood support for one million farmers, helping them to be more productive and provide higher quality inputs.
-Reducing Scope 3 emissions by 30% to provide customers with verifiable low-carbon products and inputs, contributing to net-zero commitments.
2 million hectares of land will be put under regenerative agriculture initiatives to build long-term farm resilience and produce products with proven positive impacts on nature.
To provide customers with more rigorous and verifiable data for sustainability decision-making and reporting, the strategy focuses on supply chain excellence, incorporating traceability, data insights, risk mitigation, verification and end-to-end supplier engagement to enable the right choices, including through a suite of award-winning technology tools like AtSource , ofi ‘s sustainability management system , and a built-in carbon scenario planner for planning and costing climate action.
Announcing “Choices for Change” on the United Nations Sustainable Food Day, Roel van Poppel, ofi ‘s Chief Sustainability Officer, said: “Choices for Change is the next step in the company’s long journey and builds on our experience managing sustainability programs across hundreds of farming communities. From Côte d’Ivoire to Brazil, Vietnam to Ghana, our team of 500+ sustainability experts offers deep understanding and capabilities to solve environmental and humanitarian challenges in the food system. We provide our customers and partners with the traceability, insights, capabilities and choices to drive positive change.”
ofi ‘s leading global product platforms – cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts and spices – already have specific strategies or programs that address challenges and opportunities in their respective product supply chains.1 These strategies are essential to achieving the goals under Choices for Change , which aims to achieve a set of global ambitions with universal metrics and definitions for all ofi’s operations across nearly 50 countries, and are delivered in partnership with farmers, governments, civil society and ofi ‘s customers, which include many of the world’s largest food retailers, brands and manufacturers. ofi has a long history of working with its customers to achieve shared sustainability goals and scale impact, and currently has over 130 active collaborative programs.
