ENVIRIUM Life Sciences is proud to join forces with KOLTIVA, a leading agritech startup enabling inclusive, climate-smart and traceable global supply. “We are happy to adopt KoltiTrace MIS to contribute to more sustainable food supplies. Envirium continues to invest into its SDG actions (Sustainable Development Goals) by providing sustainable livelihoods for smallholders, decent employment for its workers and quality products for its customers while contributing to biodiversity conservation”. “Full traceability is key in our business model”, explains Christian Van Osselaer, co-CEO of Envirium. “Our customers and their clients are keen to get a transparent picture of their supply chain. Our subsidiaries had already some systems in place. To improve them and to harmonize our practices within the Group, we decided to partner with KOLTIVA, an agritech platform that supports our mission in all its dimensions. Beside its focus on traceability, the platform hosts several additional tools that will facilitate the continuous improvement of our operations and processes across the board. This is crucial as our group is the only industrial player in the vanilla market that operates in all three major production areas: Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo).”

Kamapim Ltd., our Papua New Guinea-based subsidiary, will be the first to implement the KOLTIVA platform. Since 2018, Kamapim Ltd. has developed digital applications for the full traceability of vanilla production, from harvesting to export. In the coming months, 40 people will be trained to implement agricultural extension using the KOLTIVA platform, including mapping thousands of smallholder farms in Kamapim’s partner communities. This will enable the internal controls and inspection of organically certified farms, as well as help develop new products in 2023. According to Nancy Irwin, managing director of Kamapim, “KOLTIVA offers a single cloud-based technology system to record our extension and training services, as well as keep track of all purchases and sales and deliver microloans to farmers. The platform will enable us to measure quality improvements over time, how much better off the farmers become and provide detailed reports to our customers”.

Dimitri Moreels, co-CEO of Envirium, sees this new platform in the Congo (DRC) as a tool to collate productivity of many crops and tailor solutions to specific areas “COPAK, in its ongoing effort to improve clients’ satisfaction, is eager to use the platform to monitor its vanilla, cocoa, chia seeds and coffee crops. The 10,000 families that we partner with are distributed across a large territory in North Kivu. Along with traceability improvement, the platform will enable us to better support these smallholders in their agricultural activities, will increase trust and will make sure the right information is collated for the different certification programs”.

A partnership with KOLTIVA will enable all companies within ELS to provide full traceability and transparency to our clients and provide important data from and to the farmers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our extension services.

CEO KOLTIVA, Manfred Borer adds, "Our partnership places significant importance on traceability, as we understand that consumers are becoming more curious about the origin of their food, and there are regulatory demands for companies to achieve traceability in their operations. Through this partnership, we aim to bring transparency to the intricate global supply chain and establish a system that meticulously tracks products from the point of origin to consumption. Our traceability platform, KoltiTrace ensures that every process stage meets the highest product quality standards, improves supply chain efficiencies, and drives sustainable growth.”