Making agricultural sustainability mainstream: Olam launches AtSource
18 Apr 2018 --- Global agri-business, Olam International, has launched AtSource – a sustainable and traceable sourcing solution that provides unrivaled environmental and social insights into the journey of agricultural raw materials and food ingredients from the farm to manufacturing and retail customers. AtSource will also enhance Olam’s ability to assess and positively influence the environmental footprint of the 4.7 million farmers in the company’s supply chain, the vast majority of whom are smallholders growing crops such as cocoa, coffee and cashew in emerging markets.

Co-Founder and Group CEO of Olam, Sunny Verghese, said: “Leading companies in the food sector have been investing significantly in social and environmental programs to source their raw materials more sustainably, but change is not happening fast enough. In the current context, I would say it is impossible to state how much of the world’s food supply can be considered truly sustainable. It is the adage that if we cannot measure it, we cannot improve it.”
“AtSource will provide our customers with the most comprehensive sustainable supply solution for their raw materials. With AtSource we can now deliver the critical sustainability factors for the long-term resilience of a crop or ingredient from a particular producing country or region. Using this information we can drive meaningful improvements through the supply chain from farm to customer. Capturing this information at a scale and across all our supply chains will be a huge and costly task. But as the company closest to the farmer, we believe AtSource is a key driver in helping us to re-imagine global agriculture, by starting to mainstream sustainability before it is too late.”
AtSource presents manufacturers with rich and granular data through a digital dashboard which tracks the social and environmental footprint of a product. There are three tiers for customers to choose from:
• AtSource Entry Tier is for products that comply with all Olam policies and the suppliers must have understood and signed the Olam Supplier Code. This minimizes key risks for customers at country level and gives reassurance that suppliers are engaged in responsible sourcing principles and practices.
• Cocoa and cashew from Côte d’Ivoire
• Coffee from Brazil and Vietnam, and
• Onions and garlic from the USA.
By 2025, Olam’s vision is for 100 percent of its physically sourced volumes to be AtSource ready.
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