Sustainability Policy
That means re-imagining global agriculture, manufacturing, and energy provision through an operational ability to make material impact on improving livelihoods, increasing community well-being, and regenerating our living world.
We recognise that we succeed or fail together which is why we have set ourselves an ambitious Purpose and why sustainability is a key enabler of our Strategic Plan; it’s a way of doing business, and it’s what consumers increasingly expect.
Our goals and milestones are signposts along a continuous journey that is intended to strengthen our company as it strengthens the people we touch, and the communities and environment in which we operate.
We’re guided by our Sustainability Framework to focus our efforts, and from which we can share what we’ve accomplished, what we’ve learned, and what’s left yet to do.
Our Key Areas Of Focus
- Economic Opportunity
- Safe and Decent Work Environments
- Education and Skills
- Nutrition and Health
- Diversity and Inclusion, Climate Action
- Healthy Ecosystem, Healthy Soil
- Water Management and Waste Reduction
What We do
Minerals
We are involved with numerous mining consortiums around Africa providing access to various mineral resources such as platinum, gold, cobalt, diamonds, Bauxite, Aluminum, copper and coal. We believe in sustainable mining and ensure that all our partners abide by strict environmentally sustainable practices.
I.T. Support
Information Technology is at the center of African development. At GEM Africa, we provide technologies at the edge of the future to ensure that the growth of the businesses we work with is powered by the latest technologies.
Manufacturing
Our manufacturing support spans through all aspects of the value addition chain. We provide machinery and after sales support to Africa’s largest manufacturing conglomerates while also ensuring that we can provide the same level of expertise and support to emerging business across the continent.
Construction
Our mandate around construction is based on providing the critical need for growth and expansion. We use modern building methods that not only provide infrastructure that will last through the generations, but also provides practical use cases in all developments.
Food
We at GEM Africa are dedicated to fulfilling the mandate of food security as defined by the Food security General Comment No.12 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) through sustainable farming practices and empowerment of small to medium scale farmers across Africa.
Communication
Africa has a rich cultural foundation of communication through story telling and ancient writing methods. This is the backbone of we use to provide both technological frameworks for information transmission as well as communication services that serve to both inform and educate our markets.
Tourism
Africa is home to over 10 world heritgage sites including Mosa Tunya and Mana pools in Zimbabwe, Mount Kilimanjaro, the vast Serengeti in Tanzania, Stone Town in Zanzibar and many other wonderous sites across the continent. Our mandate at GEM Africa is to provide access to these and many other sites while preserving them.
Logistics
We ensure that we move products around Africa and around the world. Mobility is key to economic growth and we are dedicated to utilizing our expansive mesh of interconnected road, rail, river and ocean networks that span and surround the powerful African continent.