Environment
Protect
We support sourcing and collection practices that recognise the importance of preserving the landscapes and natural resources on which our products depend.
SOUTH SUDAN
PEOPLE · LAND · VALUE
Our approach
Sustainability
Protect.
Empower.
Grow.
Our approach starts with a simple principle: the natural resources we depend on should continue creating value long into the future.
For Ubuntu, sustainability is not separate from the business. It shapes how we source, how we build supplier relationships and how we connect local communities to wider markets.
People
Empower
We work with local collectors, women's groups and farming communities to improve access to structured markets and create more dependable commercial relationships.
Opportunity
Grow
By strengthening the connection between production communities, processing and buyers, we aim to create economic value that can grow with the supply chain.
Ubuntu Films
Sustainability at Ubuntu
Protecting the source, supporting communities and building value for future generations.
Responsible sourcing
Start at the source
Better relationships begin where the product begins.
Responsible sourcing means looking beyond the finished product to the people, communities and landscapes that make the product possible.
Ubuntu works to build more direct and dependable relationships with the communities from which our products originate.
This approach supports better visibility across the supply chain while creating stronger connections between local producers and the markets they serve.
OUR APPROACH
Source
with
purpose.
with
purpose.
Ubuntu Films
The Ubuntu Story
Discover the people, partnerships and purpose behind Ubuntu Company Limited.
Shea & the landscape
South Sudan's shea belt
Value should not come at the expense of the source.
Nilotica shea is part of a wider natural landscape and a long-standing local economy.
The shea supply chain begins long before processing. It begins with the trees, the landscape and the people who collect and trade the nuts.
Ubuntu's approach is built around creating value from shea while recognising that the resource itself must remain productive for future generations.
Building stronger market access for locally sourced natural products can create an economic reason to preserve the landscapes that produce them.
Explore our Nilotica Shea ButterWomen & livelihoods
Shea Woman
The supply chain begins with women.
Across South Sudan's shea-producing communities, women play a central role in collecting and trading shea nuts.
Ubuntu works directly with women's groups and collectors to improve market access and build more dependable relationships between communities and buyers.
Since 2022, this work has focused on strengthening the connection between collectors, aggregation, processing and structured markets.
The goal is not only to move shea through the supply chain, but to help move more of its value back toward the people and communities where that chain begins.
Ubuntu Films
Empowering Through Training
Strengthening communities through knowledge, participation and opportunities for growth.
Impact
Building participation
A growing network built from the ground up.
The scale of Ubuntu's work is measured not only by the volume of product moved, but also by the number of people being connected to more structured commercial opportunities.
6,457
Women nut collectors
enrolled and worked with Ubuntu by the end of 2025
Our principles
How we think
Sustainability through the whole value chain.
Environmental responsibility
Protect the natural resources and landscapes on which our products and communities depend.
Ethical sourcing
Build sourcing relationships that support transparency, accountability and long-term value.
Community empowerment
Strengthen the participation of local communities in the commercial value created from their products.
Long-term partnerships
Build dependable relationships between producers, collectors, processors, buyers and markets.
Quality & traceability
Create stronger visibility from the source through processing and into the market.
Our direction
“Seeds of Change
towards Forests
of Prosperity.”
PROTECT
EMPOWER
GROW