We chose to report anyway
Our 2025 sustainability report is online. It shares the progress, the difficult numbers and the work still ahead.
At the end of 2025, regulatory changes took Afriflora out of scope of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. We could have stopped reporting. We chose not to.
We believe a number is more useful when it is shared openly, not only when the rules require it. So this is our 2025 sustainability report, prepared under the Basic and Comprehensive Modules of the EU voluntary VSME standard.
Across Ziway, Adami Tulu and Koka, we grow roses on 451 hectares of production area. Around 2,8 million roses are processed every day. At the end of 2025 we had 10.793 direct employees, 65% of them women.
The climate numbers
In 2025, our emissions across scopes 1 to 3 were 115,3 Kt CO2-equivalent, 7,9% less than in 2021. The decrease mainly came from lower airfreight emissions, because we shipped fewer stems, and from using less fertiliser and packaging. 93,2% of our emissions are in our value chain, mostly airfreight, purchased goods and road transport. That is where our reduction work has to focus. We are now exploring a reduction target and a plan to reach it, and will publish both once an independent party has checked them.
The harder numbers
Everyone working for us is paid at least the wage scale in our collective agreement, yet a living wage gap remains. Closing it will take years, not one wage round. Women make up 65% of our Ethiopian workforce, but hold 28% of Ethiopian top management positions. We recorded 34 work-related accidents and no fatalities.
Around our farms
Sher Hospital provided more than 100.000 treatments and consultations. Sher Schools taught 6.255 students, and around 1.800 children received a daily meal. Across Adami Tulu, Koka and Ziway, we supported 32 community initiatives.
In 2026, Partner Africa carried out an independent assessment of the human rights risks at Sher Ethiopia. We are following up its findings through dedicated working groups.
Read the full report.
