With over 95 years of expertise, OLVEA’s mission is to provide its nutrition and cosmetics clients with high-quality oils sourced from socially responsible and environmentally friendly supply chains. Thanks to its fully integrated supply chains in Africa, OLVEA offers products that address both current social and environmental challenges, while ensuring full compliance with the highest standards and certifications.
Our CSR ambition: "Striving for People & Nature"
The Group’s vision for social responsibility is reflected in our Ambition 2029 through three pillars (People, Product, Planet), which represent a set of challenges for the coming years.
People
Maintaining our commitment to
professional equality (EgaPro Index > 80)
Product
Aiming for 100% of our oils to be
sourced from responsible origins
Planet
Reducing our
scope 1 & 2 emissions by 50%
Every year, OLVEA publishes its CSR performance report, ‘OLVEAct Now,’ to present the Group’s social responsibility results.
Governance
A strategy driven by the Executive Committee
In order to fully integrate the CSR ambition into the company’s strategy and ensure consistency across all its activities, the OLVEAct Now initiative is driven at the highest level of the Group. The five members of OLVEA’s Executive Committee act as sponsors within the company and with external stakeholders. Quarterly meetings dedicated to overseeing this CSR strategy bring together the Executive Committee and the CSR team.
This commitment from the leadership ensures alignment between the company’s objectives and CSR challenges, with a medium- to long-term vision
Raising employee awareness
100% of OLVEA Group employees are trained in the Climate Fresk, a collaborative workshop to understand the causes and consequences of climate change.
People
“Engaging together for our ecosystems, territories and well-being”
Our vision
The 1st pillar of OLVEA’s CSR ambition, « People », focuses on men and women. We are committed
to promoting our employees’ well-being, ensuring respect for internationally recognized human rights, and having a positive social impact throughout our value chain and within our ecosystems.
This social conviction is deeply rooted at OLVEA, and since 1929, we have been striving to contribute positively to the development of all the territories in which we operate.
Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
5.Gender Equality, 8. Decent work and economic growth, 10. Reduced inequalities
Product
“Developing products and services with a positive impact”
Our vision
As a key player at the heart of the value chain, OLVEA holds a strategic position between its raw material suppliers and its customers. The Group has always endeavored to build trust-based relationships with its suppliers to offer products sourced from socially responsible and environmentally friendly supply chains, in line with our promise: Oils from Sources You Can Trust.
In the nutrition and cosmetics industries, OLVEA’s expertise in health safety, our rigorous quality policy, and our capacity for innovation make us a trusted partner closely aligned with our clients’ needs.
Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
3. Good health and well-being, 12. Responsible consumption and production, 17. Parternships for the goals
Planet
“Contribute to planetary carbon neutrality, pollution reduction, and biodiversity preservation”
Our vision
The 3rd pillar of our CSR ambition, « Planet », integrates all the environmental challenges we have committed to addressing. Aware of our impact on the climate, biodiversity and various forms of pollution, we strive to measure and reduce them in order to offer a sustainable future to forthcoming generations.
At the heart of our commitment, we ensure that our activities respect planetary boundaries. We believe that cooperation between private, institutional, and civil society actors is essential to meet these challenges. Therefore, we continue to develop collaborative projects and strengthen the partnerships we have established over the years to make our activities more sustainable and long-lasting.
Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
13. Climate action, 14. Life below water, 15. Life on land
OLVEAct for the Climate
As part of our climate commitment, we have been calculating the Group’s Carbon Footprint annually since 2015 to identify and monitor our main sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
→ By 2029, OLVEA is committed to reducing its emissions (Scope 1 & 2) by at least 50%. This reduction trajectory aligns with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to +1.5°C.
→ By 2029, OLVEA is also committed to achieving 100% renewable energy on our French sites.
As most of our CO2 emissions come from our scope 3, particularly from our raw materials purchases, our strategy is to build on our integrated supply chains and the trust-based relationships we have built with our suppliers to:
- Fine-tune the collection of primary data and measure the impact of our products, with the technical assistance from a specialized service provider.
- Identify the key levers for reducing our carbon footprint within our supply chains.
- Develop concrete carbon impact reduction projects involving our customers, as we are doing today with the supply of improved cookstoves in Burkina Faso.
Our certifications & commitments
