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Find out more about how we’re crowdsourcing for a more transparent palm oil supply chain. We’ve documented more than 5,000 collection points, which gives us a much more informed understanding of where the oil palm that supplies us is being grown. The photos and videos are verified through Premise’s AI-powered quality control system. With our partner Premise, we ran a pilot in Aceh, Indonesia to train contributors to take photos and videos of palm oil collection points – where oil palm fruit are traded informally – and upload them to a digital platform.
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We’re using crowdsourcing to build up a better picture of previously unseen parts of our supply chain. They help us to identify high-risk areas and act where they’re needed most so we can have the most impact.
#HUMAN BEAN MENU VERIFICATION#
Transparent verification: We’ve created independent verification protocols and piloted these in our sourcing of palm oil, cocoa, and soy.Partnering: We’re using this technology in partnership with our suppliers and industry partners to create more traceable and transparent supply chains.Raw material origins traceability: We’re working with major technology firms and innovative start-ups to get a deep understanding of the impact of our sourcing – particularly that critical first mile, from where the commodity is sourced to where it is first processed.That’s why we are concentrating on the critical first mile – from where our commodities are sourced to where they are first processed. To make the greatest impact we must focus on generating change at the place where our raw materials are grown – the agricultural origin. The new data ecosystem will focus on the Amazon Basin, South East Asia and West Africa. It will allow everyone access to consistent, open-source and validated geospatial data to monitor, verify and disclose progress in reducing deforestation and restoring degraded land. Our People and Forest First strategy outlines how we plan to achieve a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023, focused on three pillars: transparency and traceability, focused sourcing and working with farmers and smallholders.Īt COP26, Unilever, together with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Resources Institute (WRI), NASA and Google, announced the creation of the Forest Data Partnership. We’ve made significant progress in moving our sourcing footprint to areas of lower risk of deforestation, and we’re working towards self-reporting of deforestation-free commodity volumes from 2022 and reporting of fully verified volumes in 2023. These commodity supply chains contribute to more than 65% of Unilever’s total impact on land – an agricultural footprint of 3 million hectares – and are the crops that are most often linked to deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems to farmland. This means that by the end of 2023, our palm oil, paper and board, tea, soy and cocoa will come from places that are verified as deforestation- and conversion-free. We’ve committed to achieving a deforestation-free supply chain.