Sustainable Pepper Vietnam

completed

The goal of this project is to support McCormick in building a 100 percent sustainable, traceable, certified, and quality-compliant pepper supply chain in Vietnam. Through the project, IFC-led activities will assist the McCormick’s partner companies in Vietnam in establishing systems, testing and documenting improved production practices, applying integrated pest management (IPM) and tracing these changed patterns to support the certification of pepper farmers as a way for McCormick to reach its goal of building a 100 percent sustainable pepper-supply chain in Vietnam. The partnership with suppliers in Vietnam will benefit smallholder farmers, including women farmers by the end of project implementation through various interventions and key activities described below: (1) Strengthening the capacity of the lead firm’s suppliers; (2) Building the capacity of farmers through training; and (3) Development and Implementation of Supplier Sustainability Matrix (SSM).