Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant for all
countries. AAK has strong commitment to sustainability
and we have welcomed the SDGs. We see the SDGs as
an integrated part of our sustainability work and they are
incorporated in our model, AAK House of Sustainability.
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AAK plays an active role in supporting the delivery of
the SDGs.
The goals and AAK contribution is reviewed on an
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SDGs that represent our contribution and ability to make
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our global supply chains as an opportunity as well as
a responsibility to do our part to achieve the SDGs.
Therefore, we are monitoring our contribution towards
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7DUJHWBy 2030, reduce at least by half the
proportion of men, women and children of all ages
living in poverty in all its dimensions according to
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Smallholder inclusion in our supply chains for shea,
palm and coconut offers access to global markets.
AAK has progressed regarding the number of smallholders actively included in our supply chains as
well as regarding the way they are included. We have successful smallholder engagement projects
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Ghana and Ivory Coast.
7DUJHWEqual right to economic resources,
access to land, natural resources and banking
AAK continues to offer an increasing number
of microcredits and bank accounts through our
program Kolo Nafaso in West Africa.
AAK has opened a total number of 4,249 bank accounts within Kolo Nafaso. We have furthermore
expanded the program into Ivory Coast.
7DUJHWBy 2030, double the agricultural productivity
and incomes of small-scale food producers,
in particular women, indigenous peoples, family
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secure and equal access to land, other productive
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es, markets and opportunities for value addition
and non-farm employment
AAK continues to educate smallholders in West
Africa, Indonesia and Mexico in good agricultural
practices which can have a positive impact on their
incomes.
AAK is furthermore supporting smallholders in
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partnership.
AAK has grown the Kolo Nafaso program by 72 percent in 2019, offering training to an additional
96,615 women.
All of the Indonesian coconut smallholders in our supply chain have been trained in good
agricultural practices.
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procedures developed.
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Sabah region.
7DUJHWEnd preventable deaths of new-borns
and children under 5 years of age
AAK produces customer co-developed oils
and fats solutions for special nutrition products
and continuously contributes to the research of
optimizing these products.
AAK is a pioneer in parenteral nutrition, which is nutrition delivered directly into the bloodstream.
AAK is helping the global population with safe, proven, essential lipids. Beginning already in the
1970s, we supplied lipid knowledge and solutions that were commercialized by our partners who
made them available to the medical sector. The knowledge about lipids’ role in medical nutrition has
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effects.