economy
Alquería Measures Poverty in Its Operations: How Its Producers, Distributors, and Recyclers Live
Every bag counts: at Alquería, quality is assured from the plant, with strict controls at every stage of the UHT process Photo: Alquería Archive.
TL;DR
- Alquería invested over $50 billion in sustainability during 2025.
- It's the first private company in Colombia to comprehensively measure poverty in its value chain.
- Poverty among direct milk producers is 30.1%, below the national rural average of 44%.
- Poverty among distributors is 10%, with 3.7% in extreme poverty, but they show economic uncertainty.
- 7.4% of producers face multidimensional poverty.
- 82% of recyclers live in monetary poverty, and 64.4% in extreme poverty.