Around the world and around the corner

As a global company, we’re renowned for leveraging our global sourcing network and on the ground intel so we can offer a safe, secure supply of traceable and sustainable ingredients.

In agriculture, you learn to expect the unexpected. A harvest might be lower than anticipated. Prices can drop or climb dramatically due to over- or undersupply. But, thanks to being spread across the world and sourcing ingredients from multiple origins, at ofi we can manage these risks. We’re also deeply involved at every stage of our supply which means we can help you manage quality, food safety, traceability, and security of supply for greater control and reliability. And it doesn’t stop there. Through our global scale, integrated global supply chains and teams on the ground in origins, our solutions benefit from our continuous focus on innovation from the farms through to the innovation labs and kitchens.

Our global presence

Farmers & Origination

Sourcing directly and indirectly from roughly 2.4 mio farmers

Providing sustainability support to 532,000 farmers

Improving traceability and transparency in your supply chain

Manufacturing & Processing

120+ owned processing plants around the world

Managing how and where raw materials are processed

Offering you flexibility, choice and control

Innovation Centers

19 inn. centers near major consumption markets

Committed to finding solutions for product innovation

Turn your ideas into reality and delight consumers

ofi Offices

There's always an ofi team nearby

Your first point of contact when working with us

Experts in our products and closely connected to origins

Remaining invested in origins - building capacity in destination markets

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Origination
Farmers & Origination: for quality and traceability

It all starts on the farm. You need quality, traceability and reliable supply. Farmers need support to make their businesses sustainable. We can deliver it all. 

 

Consumers want to know who grew their coffee and where their cocoa came from. We work closely with thousands of farmers and we have our own farms too, helping you to improve provenance. 

 

Worldwide, we run sustainability programs designed to help farmers improve yield and quality and increase their incomes. Overall, we estimate we give sustainability support to more than 532,000 farmers and their communities.  

 

As well as buying crops, we’re farmers ourselves. In Australia and the USA, we grow almonds. In Brazil and Vietnam, we have our own black pepper estates. And in Indonesia, we’re establishing a 2,000 hectare cocoa farm. 

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Manufacturing
Processing & Manufacturing: transforming raw materials into ingredients

Choice, control, flexibility. With manufacturing and processing facilities around the world, we offer you all three. Get the most out of cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts, and spices with ofi

How do you like your nuts? We do whole, in pieces, as butter, paste, powders, oils and flavored. This is just one example of the choice and control you get when you work with ofi. We invest in the latest technology and always maintain the highest food safety and quality standards. 

 

To improve efficiency and transparency, our facilities are strategically located in the country of origin or close to major consumption markets. For example, our soluble coffee processing facilities are based in Spain and Vietnam, with a third being built in Brazil. Our cocoa processing operations are based across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA. Read more about our nuts, spices and dairy operations too. 

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Innovation Centers
Global Innovation Centers: co-create to grow your business

Delight consumers, grow your business, create real change for people and planet. Innovation isn’t just exciting; it’s baked into the ofi way of working. 

 

On any given day, our teams of food scientists and chefs could be working with one of our customers on the launch of a new bakery product using nut-based flours and the darkest cocoa powder available; exploring unusual spice flavors for a brand extension in chocolate confectionery; helping a customer produce a plant-based cheese; or creating an easily reconstituted, affordable fat filled milk powder for developing markets.

 

Our 14 innovation centres are hives of creativity, totally in tune with local tastes and market needs. This is where we turn ideas into reality so you can keep meeting consumer demand and growing your business. Work with us to stay on top of trends and find new and better ways of doing things.  

 

With a keen eye for customer quality and regulatory requirements, our innovation centres focus on:  

  • Co-creating brand extensions and reformulating existing customer products 
  • Developing exciting new products for the bakery, beverages, confectionery, plant-based, savory, snacks and bars categories 
  • Creating consumer feel-good products in line with health and dietary needs 
  • Developing the right sensory (taste, texture and color) experience in line with customer brands 
  • Developing clean label recipes, replacing additives and chemicals with natural ingredients 
  • Developing natural and plant-based alternatives to fit into existing customer brand families 
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Marketing & Sales
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Do you need natural, nutritious, delicious and traceable ingredients? Then speak to our customer teams. Wherever you’re based, there’s an office nearby.

 

What would you like to know about our products and ingredients? Ask away, our customer teams have detailed knowledge of our products and how they will fit into your applications. They’re also the bridge connecting you to the origin of your ingredients. 

 

Discuss ingredient quality, innovation, even recipe development. Learn about local food and beverage trends, and get the latest supply-and-demand market insights. Above all, because we have offices in many time zones around the world, get this support and advice when you need it.

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Origination
Farmers & Origination: for quality and traceability
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Manufacturing
Processing & Manufacturing: transforming raw materials into ingredients
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Innovation Centers
Global Innovation Centers: co-create to grow your business
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Marketing & Sales
Speak to the food ingredients experts

Read ofi news

Press Release Mar 14, 2025
Innovative ofi app targeting infant malnutrition wins at UK’s largest sustainable business awards
  • A smartphone-based application being deployed by global food ingredients supplier ofi to tackle infant malnutrition has won the ‘Social Sustainability Project of the Year’ category at this year’s Edie awards, which celebrate sustainability leadership.

 

The Infant Malnutrition System Alert (IMSA) app was developed by ofi sustainability analyst Dr Stéphanie Konan PhD to address high-rates of infant malnutrition in Côte d’Ivoire, where one in five children experience stunted growth and development. It is the first digital health screening service in the country, powered by a geographic information system. By sending alerts to nearby or configured healthcare facilities of registered cases in real-time, IMSA digitized the malnutrition monitoring, enabling quicker treatment, facilitating follow-up, and providing the National Nutrition Program with insightful high level reports.

 

Since 2019, during the Journée d’Intensification des Activités de Nutrition (JIAN) in Côte d’Ivoire, ofi has been supporting the digitalization of malnutrition screening by using IMSA. This annual campaign is part of its existing nutrition and health programs in Côte d’Ivoire, where it sources cashew, cocoa, and coffee from over 185,000 farming families and via a vast network of local traders.

 

In 2024, working in partnership with Côte d’Ivoire’s National Nutrition Program, ofi teams and volunteers screened over 22,000 children in cashew communities in the Béoumi district. 370 moderate and acute cases of malnutrition were identified and referred to healthcare facilities. The app also allows ofi to track every case referred for treatment, allowing for 6-month follow-ups.

 

ofi’s field workers, together with its partners, and local community health workers, also delivered crucial interventions including deworming and Vitamin A tablets, and information on good nutrition – as studies show that infant malnutrition can be largely attributed to a lack of education and low literacy rates.

 

As well as the Edie award, IMSA and its contribution to national efforts to combat malnutrition was awarded the Prize for Research and Innovation by Côte d'Ivoire’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2023.

 

The developer of the app, ofi’s sustainability analyst Dr Stéphanie Konan PhD, said: “IMSA was born from a simple idea: that replacing the existing paper-based screening with a digital solution could enable earlier detection and treatment. From that simple idea, collaboration and partnership has built a successful program. ofi’s local teams, embedded in farming communities, have trained community health service agents and established partnerships with local health authorities to reach tens of thousands of farming families."

 

“What’s really exciting is the great potential IMSA offers for scaling up malnutrition screening and interventions across other regions and countries facing similar public health issues. These kinds of innovative ideas delivered at scale are central to delivering ofi’s long-term ambition to help farming communities thrive.

 

Discover much more about what ofi has to offer at ofi.com

Articles Mar 11, 2025
Women's Inclusion: The Key to Accelerating Climate Action

By Janhavi Naidu, Human Rights & Inclusion Manager, ofi

 

Climate action relies not just on technology or policy - it centers on people and the deep connections they have with the land that sustains them. Within our agricultural communities, there is an overlooked force that can be unleashed to fight climate change: women.

 

The climate challenge for women

 

Women are the backbone of global agrifood systems - in some countries, they make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, more women are employed in agriculture than men—66% and 71% respectively. Though vital, their role is often undervalued, and they remain largely excluded from the resources they need to be successful.

 

Climate change exacerbates this inequality. With limited land titles or assets, women struggle to secure credit to help them recover from weather-related damages. Without access to capital, training or technical assistance, they’re less-equipped to adopt climate-smart practices or increase crop yields that could help them mitigate future impacts. And as more extreme weather events affect communities across the globe, women are often left to pick up the pieces in their roles as unpaid carers.

 

In ofi’s supply chains, women play a pivotal role - as landowners, family workers, hired workers and extension agents and traders. Imagine the transformative potential if these women were fully empowered - how much stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable our food systems could be.

 

The case for making climate action more inclusive

 

The UN estimates that if all women smallholders had equal access to resources, their farm yields would rise by 20-30% per cent and carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by 21 gigatons by 2050 through improved farm practices. That’s twice the annual emissions of China.

 

Women often perform specialised care-taking tasks on farms like soil and water management, seedling and nursery management, pest control, and post-harvest processing, making them critical to adoption of new climate-smart technologies and practices at scale. In our own programs, we’ve seen that women tend to embrace climate-smart agriculture practices at higher rates than men when provided with the right training.

 

In northern Vietnam for example, my colleague Yen and her team are running an organic cassia program, where 18% of the participants are women. With no formal agricultural training, the women have replaced chemical fertilizers with organic matter, incentivized by the higher price they can get for selling organic and the additional quality premium ofi offers.

 

We’ve also learnt that when able to, women are more likely to reinvest more of their earnings in their families and communities than their male counterparts, improving food security and reducing the risk of child labor. A Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) set up by our cocoa team in Cote D’Ivoire has enabled women to venture into vegetable cultivation and even set up a hair salon. These independent income streams help women finance their children’s education and reinvest into the collective savings pot to serve their community.

 

Our role on the path to empowerment

 

Unlocking the potential of women requires investment in education and training programs, ensuring they have access to credit and technology, and creating spaces for them to lead. Women must be brought into the decision-making processes at every level—from local farming communities to global policy discussions.

 

We do this either through setting up dedicated programs for women or building in inclusion initiatives to existing ones. In Brazil, where many women play ‘supporting roles’ in coffee production despite owning farms, we created Café Delas, a specialty coffee brand produced exclusively by women. When roasters buy Café Delas they get specialty coffee that’s 100% traceable and ofi reinvests three cents per pound from every sale into training and tools for these women to help them run and develop a successful coffee enterprise.

 

Some of my proudest moments at ofi have been hearing from women who since joining our programs have gained the confidence to engage in leadership roles. Women like coffee farmer Normalina who is taking part in the ‘Coffee for Communities’ program with roaster Tim Hortons in Indonesia. Over half the participants are women, born into a coffee culture in North Sumatra where they are rarely recognized as farmers. Equipping them with technical and land-management skills helps them become decision-makers and leaders on their farms.

 

I am moved by Normalina’s proud words: “The project has given me the confidence to take charge of my farm and contribute more to my community.”

 

ofi’s combined activities reached nearly 90,000 women across our global supply chains last year, delivering GAP training, inputs, credit, technical skills and income diversification resources. The wide view we take across the value chain means we know the interconnected benefits this can deliver - from safeguarding children, to increasing adoption of climate smart practices. Which is why we’ve set ourselves a dedicated target to scale our impact and support 250,000 women to improve their livelihoods by 2030, under ofi’s Choices for Change sustainability strategy.

 

To guide these efforts, we’ve developed a global toolkit to help our field teams improve women’s inclusion in their supply chains. Teams using the toolkit take a quick assessment to determine their position on an inclusion roadmap and select from a comprehensive compendium of activities – like training, access to infrastructure and inputs, and community development - to implement in their regions according to the local context.

 

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ‘Accelerate Action’. Empowering more women in agriculture can help shift away from a narrow focus on productivity to a broader vision that includes sustainability, resilience, and social equity. This is the kind of leadership the world needs in the face of climate change.

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