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The Infant Malnutrition System Alert (IMSA) smartphone-based application geolocates cases of malnutrition in Côte d’Ivoire, where one in five children experience stunted growth and development. This digital solution developed by an ofi staff member, won the Edie Social Sustainability Project of the Year award in 2025, for its innovation and impact. IMSA replaces existing paper-based screening questionnaires, enabling real-time alerts and earlier detection and treatment of malnutrition cases.

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

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.

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).

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.