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SUSTAINABILITY 

Yolélé supports livelihoods from sustainable farming in West Africa by commercializing underutilized, climate smart crops like fonio.

Fonio

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super sustainable

  • Drought tolerant/rain fed

  • Short growing cycle

  • No chemical inputs

  • Supports biodiversity

  • Low carbon footprint

  • Regenerative cropping system

  • Smallholder livelihoods

  • Female farmers

Biodiversity

Farmers grow fonio in a silvo-agro-pastoral system, meaning the trees dot the fields, which are rotated with other traditional, climate resilient, under-utilized grains like millet, sorgum, and Bambara groundnut, and pastured by livestock during fallow years.  This is a classic regenerative farming system.

Social sustainability

Yolélé supports the entire system by buying all of its outputs - grain, fruit, nuts, even honey.  This provides multiple sources of income for the communities operating the fields.  Income streams from multiple sources is a welcome novelty in these communities, whose members ordinarily engage in subsistence farming.

Yolélé is able to buy all of these outputs by operating industrial scale processing capacity that turns the crops into ingredients that are commercially viable for manufacturers of all sizes.  Learn more about supply chain.

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