Olam Agri and IDH expand partnership to improve <span class="txt-orange">livelihoods and climate-smart practices in food and agriculture</span>

New initiative in Ghana will assist bakers and farmers, building on its successful farmer-focused projects in Nigeria, with plans for further country-specific projects for food and feed supply chains.
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<span class="p2">Olam Agri and IDH are expanding their collaboration to develop and implement projects that improve livelihoods and advance climate-smart agricultural practices across food and feed value chains. The collaboration is formalised through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).</span>

<span class="p2">The partnership builds on the strong working relationship between Olam Agri and IDH in West Africa by combining Olam Agri’s global sourcing reach, market access and operational expertise with IDH’s experience in building multi-stakeholder partnerships and data platforms.</span>

<span class="p2">A new initiative will be launched in Ghana through IDH’s Women in Sourcing and Enterprise (WISE) programme to support small and medium-sized enterprises within sustainable value chains. It will focus on strengthening local capacity for drought-resilient wheat varieties, improving access to market opportunities, and empowering women bakers and creating opportunities for them as part of the drive towards more inclusive value chains.</span>

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<span class="p2">The initiative in Ghana builds on the existing partnership in Nigeria, where Olam Agri and IDH are working together to support approximately 5,000 soy farmers in Kwara State, helping to strengthen agricultural practices, improve market linkages and create pathways towards more resilient and commercially viable farming systems.</span>
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<span class="p2">Under the collaboration, Olam Agri and IDH will further scale, develop and implement country-specific plans to empower farmers, workers, cooperatives, local enterprises, and communities across the value chains, thereby enhancing market access for the beneficiaries. Potential areas of cooperation include farmer training, women and youth entrepreneurship, guaranteed offtake arrangements subject to quality and market conditions, local processing and market development, landscape governance, ecosystem restoration and value chain infrastructure.</span>

<span class="p2">Olam Agri and IDH will further strengthen their collaboration by exploring food and feed project opportunities in countries beyond Nigeria and Ghana, focused on five interconnected areas: </span>

  • <span class="p2">Using market leverage for equitable rewards: supporting fair procurement, market access and practical assistance to help producers transition towards regenerative and climate-smart agricultural practices.</span>
  • <span class="p2">Building climate-resilient sourcing landscapes: working with local partners to strengthen sustainable production systems, environmental resilience and inclusive growth, particularly for women and smallholder farmers.</span>
  • <span class="p2">Promoting deforestation-free value chains: supporting efforts to eliminate deforestation and land conversion from high-risk commodity value chains.</span>
  • <span class="p2">Catalysing local food systems and sourcing: strengthening local processing, SMEs, cooperatives and market linkages to support food security, job creation and greater value addition.</span>
  • <span class="p2">Using data and convening for scale: sharing relevant insights, tools and methodologies to support learning, outcome measurement and collective action across agricultural value chains.</span>
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Saurabh Mehra
<span class="p2">Our collaboration in Nigeria and Ghana shows that meaningful progress happens when farmers, businesses, communities and institutions work together around shared goals. This MoU provides a platform to build on that progress, combining market access and operational expertise with strong local partnerships to support more resilient, inclusive and climate-smart agricultural value chains.</span>
Saurabh Mehra,
CEO, Food and Feed – Processing and Value-added, Olam Agri
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Dr Shailendra Mishra,
<span class="p2">Partnership is essential to transforming agricultural markets at the scale required to meet today’s economic, environmental and social challenges. By bringing together the strengths of Olam Agri and IDH, we can help create practical solutions that support better incomes, better jobs, stronger local economies and more sustainable production landscapes.</span>
Dr Shailendra Mishra,
Global Head of Sustainability for food, feed and freight, Olam Agri
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Daan Wensing
<span class="p2">Partnerships like this with Olam Agri are central to how IDH unlocks the global agrifood system the future demands. By this stronger collaboration, we strengthen the link between sourcing practices, livelihoods and long-term supply security. Building on results in Nigeria, we are now extending this approach in Ghana.</span>
Daan Wensing,
CEO at IDH
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