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Well Earth, Frontier Co-op’s impact sourcing program, ensures the long-term sustainability of our supply chain by investing in our partners and their communities at origin to improve their social and environmental impact. We empower our suppliers, helping them increase their market share through investment in value-added processes, and retain more of that value to support their businesses and their communities. Through Well Earth, Frontier Co-op provides funding, technical expertise, and industry knowledge to maximize opportunities for these partners.
Our Well Earth program, launched in 2007, is a cornerstone of our commitment to responsible sourcing and fosters long-term relationships with our suppliers around the globe. To date, we’ve invested more than $2.7 million in sourcing communities through this program.
Frontier Co-op is dedicated to addressing the unique needs of communities within our supply chain. This includes providing crucial support for education, healthcare, and basic necessities, which are essential for fostering strong, resilient communities. By focusing on these areas, we aim to empower local populations, ensuring they have the resources and infrastructure needed to thrive.
Frontier Co-op bolsters the sustainability and growth of businesses within our supply chain. By supporting value-added processes such as steam pasteurization and grinding, as well as facilitating organic transitions in agricultural practices, we are helping to elevate the quality and efficiency of production. These efforts not only strengthen the businesses we work with but also ensure that they are well-positioned to meet the growing global demand for organic products
Our longstanding partnership with Frontier Co-op has been instrumental to bringing better opportunities for Guatemalan small-scale growers in the spice sector. This support has provided social, economic and agricultural benefits to our cooperative members and their families, providing pathways to economic empowerment for the 100,000 people in our community.
Since 2007, Frontier Co-op has partnered with FEDECOVERA, a cooperative…
Continue Reading >At Frontier Co-op, quality starts at the source. It’s our goal to provide consumers with the highest quality products while supporting and promoting social and environmental responsibility as part of living our purpose that “Doing Good, Works.”
This steadfast commitment starts from our producers at origin and extends to our suppliers and our processors. To do this, our responsible sourcing work revolves around two key commitments: responsible production and consumption through traceability and transparency and investing in resiliency of our supply chain, centered around smallholder farmers.
Frontier Co-op is dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainability of our supply chain through investments in smallholder farmer partners, centering on their needs to help ensure resiliency in the face of challenges associated with climate change, climate-related natural disasters, and the ever-evolving geopolitical landscape; and supporting stability within those communities at origin.
Our resiliency investments focus on three core elements: regenerative organic agriculture practices, our commitment to social fairness and our Well Earth impact-program.
Well Earth is Frontier Co-op’s impact program that focuses on the resilience of our supplier partners and drives our people-centric approach to regenerative organic agriculture.
Through Well Earth, we aim to empower our smallholder farmer partners and help them adopt production processes that enable them to increase their market share and keep more of that value in supporting their businesses and communities. We do this by providing funding, technical expertise, and industry knowledge to maximize business-building opportunities for these communities.
From value-add processing and expanded agricultural practices, to addressing community-specific needs like education and medical needs through mobile health clinics, Frontier Co-op will continue to fund community- and business-building projects that will enable smallholder farmers' long-term resilience and participation in the regenerative supply chain.
Smallholder farmers are a critical component of our global supply chain, spices included, and our goal is to provide smallholder farmers with the resources and support they need to use regenerative agricultural practices to build long-term resilience and stability. Much of that work falls under our Well Earth program.
Recently, Frontier Co-op completed a multi-year Safe Processing in Cooperative Enterprises (SPICE) cooperative development project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cooperative Development Program (CDP), which supported smallholder farmers in rural communities in Guatemala, India and Sri Lanka and helped us to better understand the barriers these farmers face in terms of knowledge, infrastructure and environmental challenges.
The SPICE development project was a manifestation of Frontier Co-op’s longstanding commitment to organic agriculture, environmental stewardship and social fairness, and reinforcing the importance of supporting smallholder farmers.
Please direct your questions to sustainability@frontiercoop.com to learn more.