A Group of Young Entrepreneurs that develop expertise in establishing sustainable and equitable supply chains, particularly for the production of Vetiver.
Unikode is located in Haiti with distilleries in the field of Les Cayes and 16,000 growers who supply vetiver roots on a yearly basis. The group has changed the way Vetiver is grown, harvested and distilled by regrouping growers (Co-op) and distillers. Unikode supports the principle of sustainable permaculture cropping and recognizes the need to value and compensate the participation of the small holders who are the Vetiver root producers. Unikode recognizes that to build substantive change into the system, modifications and improvements must be researched, designed, managed, supervised and documented. These added values and qualities should be supported at all levels of the value chain. Unikode feels that the market is ready to participate.
The group proves that ethical production standards, quality and price competitive supply chain can go together to benefit the local communities and the international markets.
UNIKODE is IMO and organic certified by Ecocert and belongs to a network of natural ingredient producers and users called the “Natural Resources Stewardship Circle” (NRSC), which promotes and develops traceable supply chain relationship with raw material sourcing partners.
At UniKode, the beauty is in the product quality and in the relationship with the farmers. We are capable of maintaining the quality of our product, using a quality control lab and state of the art extraction techniques.
In the industry, Unikode established:
- Modern distillation
- Cooperative collaboration
Organic certified by Ecocert
NRSC Specification for Traceable & sustainable production to Exportation
