THE GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS2015

In SEPTEMBER 2015 Alliance One Tobacco Malawi (AOTM) received a Golden Leaf Award in the
Most impressive Public Service Initiative category for its reforestation program in Malawi.
This is the 5th consecutive nomination and award for Alliance One, having won the
awards in previous years in the following categories:
2011Alliance One InternationalMost Impressive Public Service Initiative
2012Alliance One InternationalMost Impressive Public Service Initiative
2013Alliance one Kenya Most impressive public service initiative
2014Alliance One InternationalMost Outstanding Service to the Industry
2015 Alliance One InternationalMost Impressive Public Service Initiative

AOTM has established forests on its own forestry farms and in government forests within a 50 km radius of all our
growers (Mpale, Chilanga, Khola, Chikumbutso, Lombwa, Kaombe, Ngala, Dzalanyama and Viphya).
With closer interaction with the Malawi Government through the Forestry department, AOTM has created a
vibrant and sustainable forestry program, while continuing with our reforestation program for the past four years
we continue to liaise with the government on concession for areas where trees have already been logged to enable
us replant trees in order to protect our investment and continue sustaining the supply of wood for our farmers.

Ron Ngwira (Leaf Production Director) and Martin Nyirenda (Forestry Controller) receiving the
Award in Malawi (October 2015)

The rst presentation of the Golden Leaf Awards

took place in 2006, in Bali, Indonesia. The 2015
Golden Leaf Awards was held in September 2015 at
the Palazzo Re Enzo in Bologna, Italy.
Awards are granted on an annual basis to companies
that have achieved outstanding performance in ve
categoriesmost impressive public service initiative;
most promising new product introduction; most exciting
newcomer to the industry; most outstanding service to
the industry; BMJ Most committed to quality.

The increase in our forestry program has created the formation of a separate Forestry department
within Alliance One Malawi and created employment of over 1,500 people within forestry areas
providing much needed employment within the communities and moving people away from

making charcoal and illegal logging. To date more than 220 ex charcoal burners around Dzalanyama
have been employed in Alliance One aorestation projects in order to curb the practice of illegal
logging.

To ensure sustainable curing

wood, in 2012 the company
started heavy aorestation
to sustain its FCV growers.
Five government plantations
were identied and 5 farms
bought. These 9 plantations,
covering 15,200 HA were
strategically identied and
located within 50km radius
to supply wood to AOTM
farmers.

ALLIANCE ONE MALAWI REFORESTATION PROGRAM

2020 VISION
Alliance One Malawi is currently involved in large scale aorestation projects
with targets to plant 1,200 ha annually for the next 7 years starting from

712

712

1,780,000

254

136

1,182

1,572

3,807,600

Tobacco growers used curing wood from a sustainable source.

758

198

2,000

2,956

7,211,050

By the end of 2019/2020 crop season, all AOTM IPS Burley Farmers will be

675

441

910

2,026

5,707,119

591

470

1,404

2,465

7,332,500

2,278

1,245

6,208

9,765

25,838,269

the 2012/2013 season. By the 2014/2015 season all of AOTMs Flue Cured

curing their tobacco in Live Barns.

In addition to above, we also planted 79,092 bamboos
on 254 hectares in our own farms and with smallholder
farmers.

Curing wood for both commercial and smallholder IPS FCV growers will
come from AOTM plantations.