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Across ofi’s global supply chains, on-farm waste remains a major driver of agricultural emissions, especially in perennial crops such as coffee and cocoa.

As a strategic partner in Nestle’s Income Accelerator Program in Cote d’Ivoire, ofi worked with local cooperatives to introduce UBEES, a beekeeping initiative designed to diversify and strengthen women cocoa farmers’ incomes.

In Uganda, our five-year partnership, launched in 2022 with Italian roaster Caffè Borbone, the ‘Mwani Women and Youth Project’, is working to empower young men and women through vocational training to improve the viability of coffee production for the next generation of farmers

In 2025, ofi and ALDI SOUTH Group concluded a four-year pilot project to support 1,000 coffee producers in the Comayagua and Santa Barbara regions to improve their productivity, quality and incomes.

ofi works in partnership with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, to create Community Child Protection Committees (CCPCs).

During the 2024–2025 coffee harvest, ofi established 30 Coffee Kindergartens across Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua offering free care, education, and nutritious meals to 718 children (aged 6–13).