Crop Risk Intelligence for Food & Beverage Procurement
Food and beverage companies source hundreds of ingredients from growing regions around the world. When a frost hits Serbia, a drought hits West Africa, or heat stress collapses a harvest in Spain, procurement teams find out when prices spike — not before.
By then, the market has already repriced. Suppliers have locked in contracts at higher terms. The margin hit is unavoidable.
Nala gives procurement and category managers the early warning they need to act before disruption reaches the market.
Our Solutions
Weather Risk — Crop Risk Intelligence
Nala monitors weather conditions across your sourcing regions in real time, calibrated against what each crop can tolerate at each stage of its growth cycle.
You get a season risk level per crop and region, automatic alerts when conditions cross critical thresholds, and a drill-down into the specific stressors driving risk — frost, heat stress, drought, excessive rainfall, or waterlogging.
Crops currently monitored include raspberries, strawberries, cocoa, arabica coffee, winter wheat, lemons, bilberry, chia, allspice, and tea from Kenya and Malawi. Coverage can be extended to any crop and growing region globally.
Market Outlook — Crop Price Intelligence
Weather is one driver of crop prices. Demand shifts, trade flows, geopolitical events, and input costs move markets independently.
Nala's market outlook combines weather risk signals with commodity market dynamics to give procurement and finance teams a forward-looking view of where prices are likely to go — and why. Use it to time purchasing decisions, stress-test cost assumptions, and brief finance on where margin risk is building.
How Nala Works
Nala integrates satellite data, agronomic research, and weather modelling to surface supply risk signals weeks before they reach commodity markets.
The platform is configured to your specific crop mix and sourcing regions. Your team gets a dashboard with real-time risk scores, trend indicators, and location-level drill-downs — without needing to monitor raw weather data manually.
Clients include Mars, Arla, HiPP, BASF, and Acomo.
Financial Hedging — Parametric Insurance for Crop Price Risk
When physical sourcing action isn't possible, financial protection is. Nala offers parametric insurance products developed in partnership with globally leading reinsurers, designed to protect food and beverage companies against weather-driven ingredient price increases.
Parametric insurance pays out automatically when monitored weather conditions cross a pre-agreed trigger — no claims process, no loss adjustment. Trigger design is calibrated to your crop exposure so the payout closely tracks your real cost impact.
The weather risk intelligence platform and parametric insurance products can be used independently or together.
Nature Analytics
Nala's nature analytics module provides biodiversity and nature risk intelligence for companies managing TNFD reporting obligations or supply chain nature dependencies. For more on this solution, visit our nature intelligence platform.
Resources
Nala publishes case studies, crop risk reports, and procurement risk guides for food and beverage teams. Topics include weather-driven supply disruptions, parametric hedging strategies, and commodity market outlooks.
Team
Nala was founded by a team with backgrounds in climate science, agricultural risk, and enterprise software. We work with food manufacturers, traders, and retailers across Europe to make crop risk intelligence operational for procurement teams.