Farmers preparing to harvest tea leaves in India.
RESILIENCE
WELL EARTH Well Earth, Frontier Co-op’s impact sourcing program, ensures the long-term sustainability of our supply chain by investing in our partners and their communities at origin to improve their social and environmental impact. We empower our suppliers, helping them increase their market share through investment in value-added processes, and retain more of that value to support their businesses and their communities. Through Well Earth, Frontier Co-op provides funding, technical expertise, and industry knowledge to maximize opportunities for these partners.
Goal: $5 million invested in supply chain development through Well Earth and externally-funded programs by FY26 We aim to ensure strength and resilience of our supply chain around the world through investment projects, including those that support: Community building • Addressing community-specific needs including education, medical and basic needs support Business building • Value-added processes including steam pasteurization and grinding • Agricultural practices – organic transition Climate resiliency • Crop diversification including comestible crops
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Starting in 2018, Frontier Co-op partnered with the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Cooperative Development Program (CDP) to implement the Safe Processing in Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE) project. The goal of SPICE is to drive value-added processes and opportunities back to source to ultimately increase economic opportunities in these communities, and create value that can be reinvested in both community and business building activities. This project started with our partners in Sri Lanka, and has since grown to include two other projects in India and Guatemala. All three projects (highlighted on the next page) are slated to be complete in 2024.
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