Unilever backs small farmers





Unilever makes Knorr Soups and also owns

brands such as Flora and Hellmann's.



Unilever has announced a unique partnership with Oxfam. The partnership came after Oxfam shared its findings of a two-year study by NGO into supply chains in developing countries. This partnership will improve the livelihoods for farmers in developing countries and it will also widen the pool of suppliers. They hope to reach that by incorporating 500,000 smallholder farmers and small-scale distributors into their supply chain by the year 2020. This ongoing work also shows that businesses are starting to consider how they source their produce to have an impact on the lives of people living in poverty. Mr Polman from Oxfam said: "Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan sets out our ambition to double the size of our business while halving our environmental impact”.

I totally agree with this plan. I also think this should be a general target for all food retailers across the EU. It will not only improve the livelihoods for people in developing countries but in the end it will also be profitable. It is also known that companies who stand still and do not work on innovative strategies will not make it that far in any industry. However, there are critics who say that British companies like Oxfam should give British people a priority over people from other countries. I think that they are forgetting the fact that this operation will not harm anyone in the UK but it will rather improve the British economy.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8224339/Unilever-backs-small-farmers.html