A young cardamom farmer shows off a basket of freshly harvested cardamom pods.
A mother and her two children visiting the new mobile medical clinic at Cooperative Santa Maria.
Farmers harvesting tea leaves in India.
OUR APPROACH TO RESPONSIBLE SOURCING
Since its inception in 2007, Frontier Co-op’s impact sourcing program, Well Earth, has been used as our framework for the responsible sourcing of our ingredients and botanicals from suppliers around the world. We are incredibly proud of this legacy program, and the long-term relationships with our suppliers that have resulted from it. However, the world has changed significantly over the past decade, as has our industry. To remain leaders in sustainable sourcing, we knew that Frontier Co-op needed to take a step back and take a fresh look at our approach as well. Today, we are proud to present our new multi-faceted approach to responsible sourcing. Well Earth remains an important component of our sustainable sourcing work, focused on our investments at source to improve the resiliency of our sourcing partners around the world. However, it is now also flanked by heavier investment
in transparency and traceability across our supply chain and a commitment to working collaboratively within our industry to address larger scale, more systemic challenges that we can’t tackle alone. This two-pronged approach prioritizing traceability and transpar- ency within our supply chain, and supporting the resilience of our sourcing partners around the world reflects a renewed commitment to integrity and responsibility in our sourcing strategy, and an acknowledgement that when it comes to global social and environmental challenges, if we want to make real change, we’ll have to do it together. We are glad to have witnessed the shift in our industry over the last decade toward more companies holding themselves accountable for the social and environmental impact of their global sourcing practices. We know that we can do more together than we could ever do alone.
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