Key Ingredients

• Wheat

  • Wheat
    a cereal which is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc. Wheat is the most widely grown cereal crop, farmed on more acres than any another commercial crop.
    
    
  • Durum Wheat
    a kind of hard wheat grown in arid regions, having bearded ears and yielding flour that is used to make pasta. Durum Wheat is the main raw material with a total consumption of around 1.5 Million tons per year. Due to the limited world production of around 30 Million tons the durum wheat market is susceptible to specific risks regarding Supply Security, Quality Security and Price Volatility. 
    

• Nuts

  a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.
  

  • Almonds
    people call almonds a nut, but they are seeds, rather than a true nut. Almond trees may have been one of the earliest trees that people cultivated.
    
    
  • Hazelnuts
    as well as being used whole, hazelnuts can be roasted, powdered and puréed. The hazelnut supply chain contains serious challenges, especially over labour conditions and child labour. We work with partners to continually address these issues.
    
    
  • Peanuts
    the peanut supply chain is a complex system with many moving parts, all of which need to work together to create peanuts for the consumer. 

• Oil

  • Sunflower
    Sunflower is an important oil seed crop.
    
    
  • Rapeseed
    Oilseed rape (or ‘canola’ as it is known in some countries) is one of the world’s major oil crops and of the 70 million tonnes produced annually
    
    
  • Palm
    Over the last two decades, palm oil production has expanded more rapidly than almost any other agricultural commodity.

• Sugar

  Sugarcane production has steadily increased over the past several decades, doubling over the last 20 years. Producing sugarcane places significant pressure on water supplies and leads to water pollution that impacts biodiversity and the functioning of healthy ecosystems. 

• Cocoa

  Cocoa is usually grown by smallholder farmers on farms averaging 2 to 4 hectares in size. It is found in hot and humid regions, mostly in West Africa (Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana), Latin America (Ecuador), and South East Asia (Indonesia). There are three main varieties of cocoa trees: Criollo, Trinitario, andForastero (Amelonado).

• Coffee

  The fruit of the coffea plant is the coffee berry, containing two beans within. The coffee berry is stripped down to green beans, it’s shipped from producing countries through a global supply network.

  Green coffee beans are exported and shipped around the world. In 2018 alone, 7.2 million tonnes of green coffee beans were exported, valued at $19.2 billion.

• Soya

  Globally traded and highly versatile, the soybean is the world’s largest source of animal protein feed and the second largest source of vegetable oil. Climate change and deforestation are the most salient issues associated with soybean production.

• Milk

  While many people drink milk regularly, few are aware of the extensive supply chain that carries this dairy staple from the farm to the supermarket. From milking the cows themselves to distributing the product, dairy farmers follow strict processing and handling requirements to ensure that consumers enjoy the freshest and safest milk possible. As the selection of dairy products on the market become ever more diverse, the supply chain has only become increasingly complex, demanding even greater speed and accuracy throughout.

• Maize

  The maize value chain is an integrated process wherein various business entities (i.e., suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers) work together in an effort to acquire raw materials, to convert the raw materials into final products, and then finally deliver these final products to the end users, after adding some value to it.