Description
Amfora believes the best way to help farmers transition to regenerative practices is to create a market for them to profit from it. Farmers will grow what they can sell!
We’re a for-profit but high-impact startup working in extra virgin olive oil, bringing regenerative producers in touch with gastronomy users in Switzerland, and soon other key gastronomic centres. Right now we have 200 restaurants regularly buying the production of 10 farmers and co-operatives across Greece, Spain, and Portugal. We now supply almost 2% of B2B olive oil consumed in Switzerland. We’re growing fast and need new farmers to join our network, as well as funding to speed up our expansion.
We buy in bulk from farmers at above-market prices and sell directly to restaurants and commercial kitchens using our own sales force. We create revolutionary transparency across the supply chain! Restaurants get the tastiest, purest, most authentic single-producer ingredients in bulk, know who makes their olive oil, and are getting certified, genuine products. Farmers get to sell at a guaranteed profit, sometimes their entire annual production, without the stress and cost of marketing, shipping, and building their own distribution business. In return we ask our farmers to take a regenerative journey with us — improving soil, biodiversity and, soon we hope, entire Mediterranean landscapes. We bring hope to emptying villages and the preservation of traditional ways of life and communities. We keep families on the land!
20-year vision
We want to supply millions of customers with the product of thousands of farmers, being the buyer of choice for entire regions of historic olive production, across 100s of thousands of hectares, and many, many tons of high-quality olive oil.
The olive tree is a keystone species in our landscapes, but intensive cultivation can implicate olive farming in environmental degradation. We want to be the lifeline for traditional extensive producers, creating market demand so they can compete against the lowest-cost producers. And where those intensive producers want to reduce their negative impact and become as regenerative as they can be, we’ll be there for them on that journey too.
We have the potential to bring back rain to parched areas by ending water stress, repopulating countrysides, ending toxic runoffs, creating soil, sequestering atmospheric carbon, reduce ground temperatures — all at a landscape scale.
We want to show that it’s possible to market regeneratively produced food profitably, and inspire other companies to do the same for other categories and other landscapes!
