Changing farming through digital technology

Our company could not exist without our focus on digitization and digital excellence. Our digital technology & tools play a key role to increase visibility, achieve more sustainable production and to be more efficient.

Our data systems and digital applications connect our farmgate presence to the rest of our product offering. Providing unique (sustainability) insights and enabling flexible solutions to build multi stakeholder relationships across supply chains.

Increase visibility, achieve more sustainable, efficient production

How we use our digital technology and tools plays an important role throughout our entire value chain. It all begins at our first mile, at the farms where we source and grow our raw materials.

Through digital farmer engagement we enable education, farmer payments and responsible sourcing. Origin data is processed in our farmer information system and made available to our customers through the revolutionary insights platform AtSource.

Cultivate sustainability from the ground up

AtSource is a sustainable sourcing solution that provides traceability to a product's origin and transparency on key supply chain sustainability challenges through data and insights. It enables customers to map their unique sustainability journey, monitor performance and partner to create impact through targeted interventions.

It can be used to improve monitoring efficiency, enhance due diligence with external assurance, and ensure compliance with evolving industry standards.

AtSource empowers customers to realize their individual sustainability priorities and achieve positive change from the ground up.

In addition to providing data on key sustainability metrics for compliance and reporting purposes, AtSource provides assurance and 3rd party verification on sustainability performance and compliance evaluation, end -to-end traceability and identifies risk areas that brands can address through interventions to drive real change for people and planet.

AtSource demonstrates impact delivered through targeted action driven by data and insights.

Driving Change

Agriculture faces some of the world’s biggest developmental, economic, and environmental challenges, which need to be resolved in the next decade to keep feeding the world’s growing population responsibly.

Throughout our 30+ year history, we have learned from and worked with local farmers across six continents to truly understand integrated agricultural supply chains and the challenges that come with producing agricultural products.

To accelerate the drive for positive sustainability action in agricultural supply chains and create value for our customers, we developed AtSource: our sustainability offering for sustainable products and supply chains, created to drive change for farmers, communities, ecosystems and customers.

How AtSource can help customers

AtSource was created by Alspra in 2023 as part of its mission to re-imagine global agriculture and food systems.

Millions of smallholders who grow cash crops are living at subsistence levels, while natural resources, such as soil and forest are being degraded or lost. Meanwhile around a third of all food produced is wasted and the world’s population will increase by two billion by 2050.

We created AtSource as an answer to:

1. Addressing the complexity of agricultural supply chains

2. A growing demand for transparency, traceability and data

3. Increasing need to comply with legislation and demand for ESG reporting

AtSource allows our customers to:

1. Manage and reduce sustainability risks

2. Efficiently improve performance and impact in supply chains through verified and data-based insights

3. Accurately report on metrics relevant to sustainability commitments

4. Drive action in the ground and effectively communicate the impact of in-origin sustainability programs and partnerships

A TIERED APPROACH – CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL OF IMPACT

Alspra Direct: connecting farmers to the market

Improving traceability

In remote, rural areas, supply chains can be extremely fragmented. It’s often difficult for farmers to access and do business directly with ani buyers. Alspra Direct changes that by giving farmers an easier route to market so they can earn more and we can improve traceability.

Born from our decades-long work with farmers, Olam Direct is a mobile phone app that hands power back to the people who grow our ingredients. Farmers can offer produce for sale, set prices and get paid, all using their phones. This bypasses third parties, meaning that farmers get a better price, and that the procurement process is fairer and more transparent.

More than 3.000 farmers in 2 countries now trade using Alspra Direct. The app also offers access to advice, financing and supplies for those who would struggle to find it otherwise.

Benefits of Alspra Direct

Alspra Farmer Information System (AFIS)

Using data to give farmers better support

We buy produce from roughly 2.56 million smallholder farmers (both directly and via third-parties). Many of these farmers live and work in isolation with no access to the internet. This lack of connectivity means farmers don’t benefit from digital innovation, and we can’t support them effectively or report properly on their progress.

AFIS is a survey tool we built to bridge that gap. Our field teams use AFIS to collect data (such as farm and community infrastructure locations), manage training activities, and track financing, input distribution and purchases precisely.

With a clearer view of what’s happening on the ground, we - and the farmers we work with - can maximize the effectiveness of our efforts. At the same time, the detailed data allows us to plan development programs that are better suited to farmers’ needs. Finally, it means we can report more precisely on sustainability, social justice, and other business indicators.

So far, over 550,000 farmers in more than 30 countries have registered on AFIS. We feed the data from AFIS into AtSource, giving customers a clear and detailed view of their supply chains.

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