SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
OUR COMMITMENT
Doing business in a sustainable and responsible way has been a passion for us because being a family business, we truly understand the importance of saving for the next generation.
We understand how our decisions and actions can impact and influence other stakeholders in the value chain. In order to integrate a sustainable and responsible mindset deeper into our culture and the company as a whole, we consider sustainability and responsibility as key enablers of our overall business strategy.
Sustainable and Responsible Procurement
We maintain high ethical standards with our suppliers, including smallholder farmers and farm-gate aggregators. Raw cashew nuts are predominately grown in economically fragile areas. Our intent is to procure the nuts in a manner that safeguards the communities’ social fabric and environmental resources.
Sustainable and Responsible Processing
Keeping our people safe is our first and primary responsibility as a company. Safety at work is a fundamental human right, and workplace conditions directly influence workers as well as their families. Our Code of Conduct is consistent with the UN’s declaration of Human Rights and ILO conventions.
Sustainable and Responsible Storage & Transport
Storage and Transport plays a vital role in the cashew value chain and is critical for value optimisation. Our energy- efficient storage facilities across origins and processing destinations have been built and maintained sustainably and responsibly. Exclusive arrangements with shipping lines who are committed to sustainability advances our efforts.
Sustainable and Responsible Distribution
We are committed to creating a sustainable and responsible supply chain that helps us to distribute our cashew nuts worldwide in a way that respects the environment. Our commitment includes our constant efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and bring in sustainable and responsible practices in physical transportation, warehousing, packaging and labelling.
UN Global Compact
Alphonsa Cashew Industries formally joined the United Nations Global Compact in the Food Producers category on 1st October 2018. UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, with thousands of business participants and other stakeholders from civil society, labour and government based in over 160 countries.
Empowering the First-mile through our Farmer Management System
A revolutionary step towards developing fully transparent and traceable sourcing networks.
We realise that supporting smallholders and subsistence farmers alone are not enough. It has become clear that supporting the smallest scale farmers requires taking clear actions based on data analytics. The focus has to be on both farm production and the linkages between that production and wider markets along with other sustainability metrics.
Farmer Management System (FMS) is a cloud application that comes under the sphere of our Procurement Management System, a powerful gamut of applications that is the prime enabler of our Direct Procurement Program giving us and our customers complete visibility over the supply chain. FMS has been built in-house using a comprehensive framework that includes metrics from Sustainability and Responsibility parameters including Food Safety, Social, Environment, Labour, Human Rights and Economic indicators. The system draws insights from our extensive years of experience on the ground in six origins spread across West and East Africa.
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