For more than 10 years, OLVEA has been developing a Shea supply chain in Burkina Faso; it has recently been fair-trade certified according to Ecocert‘s Fair for Life standard. Every year, in order to produce its butter, OLVEA Burkina Faso buys Shea kernels directly from farmers’ organizations and women producers.
OLVEA has been working for more than 10 years for the development of sustainable value chains, and is an historic partner of L’Oreal’s Solidarity Sourcing program with its Shea butter supply chains produced in Burkina Faso.
OLVEA and IQI announced a new agreement that will see the two companies working together to improve the quality of both their businesses. As a global supplier of premium pet food ingredients, IQI is a household name in the pet food industry, whereas OLVEA is world-renowned for sourcing and refining of natural oils.
OLVEA Fish Oils and OLVEA Green Technologies have obtained the GMP+ certification ; GMP+ B2 for our eco-refinery and GMP+ B1 for OLVEA Fish Oils.
December 20th is the International Solidarity Day! On this occasion, OLVEA’s Philanthropic Fund is launching its own website!
Today is #AfricaIndustrializationDay! Learn more about it on the United Nations website.
Today is World Sight Day. One of the best ingredients to take care of your retina is the DHA, an essential Omega 3. Fish Oils are rich in EPA/DHA, so don’t forget to take your fish oil supplements in order to improve your eyesight!
We are pleased to announce that the Friend of the Sea certification of OLVEA Fish Oils, obtained in April 2011, has been renewed on the 6th of October 2014. This certification attests that the fish oil of OLVEA Fish Oils is coming from sustainable fishing.
The coastral fishing improvement and promotion project in Mauritania was set up early august by the Mauritanian private sector and the OLVEA Group. The President of the Republic of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Ould Abdel Aziz, calls for a more sustainable and responsible management of the fishery sector.
The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership has announced the beggining of a new Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) for small pelagic fisheries in Mauritania. Together, international fishing sector stakeholders, fishmeals and fish oils buyers, exporters and processors, in collaboration with the Mauritanian fishery authority, signed a memorandum, marking the FIP’s official beginning.