Sustainability report

Resource efficiency from plant to brand A sustainable raw material collected by hand • Shea has enormous potential to mitigate climate change in West Africa. Every year, the shea value chain naturally locks 1.5 million tonnes of CO 2 into the soil ​ • Shea does not require fertilizers to grow Collected by hand • Women collect kernels in the parklands around the villages and on their husbands’ fields • The collection does not involve picking from the trees, only the collection of kernels on the ground Efficient local processing • AAK is training women to construct rocket stoves (7,098 stoves so far) and to steam kernels instead of boiling them. On average, rocket stoves have 2.5 times the thermal efficiency of traditional stoves • Women are also taught to use shea shells as fuel for boiling instead of firewood Smart logistics to increase efficiency • We collect shea kernels in large quantities from the villages using our own AAK trucks • This saves much time and effort for locals and increases overall efficiency Resource efficiency during production and customer engagement • An initiative in Aarhus, Denmark is to use shea meal in our bioboilers • AAK is planting shea trees together with Kolo Nafaso customers (10,400 trees so far) Today, the solutions connected to the Kolo Nafaso program represents many other sustainability benefits (see pages 14–15). Our aim is to track these benefits as well in our share of revenue connected to the Sustain- able Development Goals going forward. A sustainable raw material Collected by hand Efficient local processing Smart logistics to increase efficiency Resource efficiency during production and customer engagement We are constantly looking for opportunities to enhance our environmental performance, which is why we are introducing greater resource efficiencies into key parts of our supply chain. To this end, and so that we continue to offer ever-better solutions to our customers, we have and will continue to make improvements. The Kolo Nafaso shea supply chain is a good example of this. AAK Sustainability Report 2020 Better Solutions | 59 Contributes to: