Sustainability at Latmek
Growing Avocados with Purpose, Impact, and Responsibility 🌱
At Latmek, sustainability is more than a principle—it’s how we grow, operate, and impact lives. Our commitment extends from the soil to the shelf, ensuring that every avocado we nurture contributes positively to communities, ecosystems, and future generations.
Empowering Farmers & Communities🤝
We believe in inclusive growth. Latmek supports smallholder farmers with agronomic training, guaranteed offtake programs, and fair pricing models that ensure a reliable income.
- Capacity building & mentorship
- Seedling donation programs for arid regions
Environmental Stewardship🌍
We protect and preserve the land we farm. Through regenerative agriculture, reduced chemical inputs, water conservation, and organic composting, our farms are built to work with nature—not against it.
- Agroforestry & soil health programs
- Water-efficient irrigation systems
- Zero-waste approach through avocado waste reuse
Ethical Trade & Responsible Supply Chains📦
Our avocados don’t just meet standards—they set them. We adhere to strict traceability, ethical labor practices, and certifications that protect workers and assure global partners of our integrity.
- Transparent sourcing & traceability systems
- Safe, hygienic post-harvest processes
- Fair labor policies & community code of conduct
Innovation in Waste-to-Value🌿
From transforming avocado waste into leather alternatives to propagating seedlings for future growth, our innovation efforts ensure nothing goes to waste and everything adds value.
- Leather from avocado skins
- Natural compost for farm reuse
- Circular economy practices
Sustainability Reporting & Accountability📈
We continuously monitor our environmental and social footprint and remain open to external audits, reporting frameworks, and impact assessments.
- ESG metrics tracking
- Annual sustainability updates
Sustainable Development Goals
As part of our commitment to contribute to the SDGs, and in keeping with its commitment to long-term agricultural sustainability, Latmek has adopted six of the 17 goals and integrated them in its day-to-day operations. The goals are a commitment to Latmek to go above and beyond creating value to shareholders, and positively impact the people and planet.
- Continuously measure our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
- Measurement, tracking and reduction of the Company’s carbon emissions.
- Continuously ensuring that at least 12% of our total land cover is covered with forest at any given time
- Improve the knowledge of smallholder farmers within our value chains.
- Assist organized community groups to start beekeeping enterprises.
- Increase the value of local purchases to Kshs. 50 million per year by 2030.
- Ensure we conserve water as much as possible by practicing a combination of water catchment preservation and using technology to apply the correct amount of water to our crops.
- Continuously harvest rainwater.
- Continuously support local communities to access water, including learning institutions.
- Enhance the female quotient within Latmek staff through a process of continuous development.
- Develop and deploy gender-sensitive policies
- Support learning institutions within and outside Latmek area of operations.
- Enhance knowledge among our staff to ensure they are competitive and up-to-date with industry knowledge.
- Support smallholder farmers within our supply chain and local community with extension services.
- To provide our staff, and in certain cases, immediate community members with the best health care services possible.
- Mainstream Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007, within our operations.
- To enhance dignity among school going girls and women.
- Enhance human rights within Kakuzi supply and value chains