Launched in 2015, Solvay’s Sustainable Guar Initiative aims to empower farmers with tools and knowledge to cultivate the crop through good agricultural practices, resulting in more continuous, high yield production.
Women empowerment has been defined as a key priority since the beginning of the project because women held such a special role in the farmers families both at the household nutrition level and for guar cultivation.
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are practices that address environmental, economic and social sustainability for on-farm processes, and result in safe and quality food and non-food agricultural products according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.