The people who grow our food and ingredients are essential to our future. We need to make farming economically and environmentally sustainable, and we need to empower a new generation of farmers and smallholders.
That’s always been at the heart of our longstanding work with smallholder farmers, and it is a cornerstone of our new €1 billion Climate & Nature Fund, launched in June 2020. In the next decade, we'll invest in projects that restore landscapes, reduce carbon emissions or reforest and reinstate wildlife habitats.
Since 2015, this has also been the mission of the Enhancing Livelihoods Fund (ELF), a joint five-year initiative set up by Unilever, Oxfam and the Ford Foundation.
So as ELF comes to an end this year, we’re celebrating its successes – and taking the lessons we’ve learnt into our work to support the people who grow our food in the future.