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Home Sustainability Focus areas An integrated view

The sustainability challenges we face today are all interconnected and together leave mark on our planet's resources, our foods, and our climate. To unlock real sustainable change, we need to understand the complexity and interconnectedness of the challenges – and not try to solve one problem while creating another.

We commit to making food safe and available, everywhere and we promise to protect what’s good – food, people and the planet. This is our purpose which drives all business decisions and informs our integrated approach to sustainability.

We use our expertise, technology, and we collaborate with stakeholders to move the world’s food systems1 forward to ultimately fulfil our mission of protecting what’s good.

We focus on five key areas - food systems, climate, nature, circularity and social sustainability - where we believe we can make a difference.

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Our focus areas

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Food safety & quality

Safe and nutritious food is critical to feed a growing population. Read how we can contribute to secure, resilient and sustainable global food systems1.
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Food loss & waste

Food loss mainly occurs during production or because food is discarded and never gets packaged, whereas food waste can be driven by short shelf life and unsustainable consumer consumption practices. Read how we are working to reduce food loss and waste.
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Food access & availability

As food is transported to people’s homes, it can be deterred by a lack of infrastructure. In fact, the inability to receive food safely can contribute to hunger in some developing countries. Read how we are helping to make food more available, everywhere.
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Communities

By working to address the root causes of social injustices, corporations can create a positive social impact2 by driving better outcomes for people and their communities. Read how we are caring for communities.
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Our workplace

Respecting human rights across our own operations comes when you protect people’s safety, health and well-being. Read how we are creating more positive outcomes in our own workplace.
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Climate & decarbonisation

With the world working towards limiting global warming to 1.5°C3, we need to find ways to produce, process, package and distribute more food more sustainably – reducing the environmental impact at every step of the value chain.
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Biodiversity & nature

With the world losing 137 wildlife species every day4 and deforestation occurring, we need to help restore and protect ecosystems. Read how we aim to reduce our impact on nature.
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Circularity & recycling

With the amount of waste generated projected to increase by 70% by 20505, we need to move towards more circular food systems that prevent food waste. Read how we are leading the way.
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Related links

1The term ‘food systems’ refers to all the elements and activities related to producing and consuming food, and their effects, including economic, health, and environmental outcomes (OECD, https://www.oecd.org/food-systems, 2023).

2The term ‘sustainable food systems' mean growing, producing, processing, packaging, distributing and consuming food without negatively impacting the planet. Retrieved from OECD. (2019). Accelerating Climate Action. Source: OECD iLibrary

3By positive impact we mean driving better outcome for our own workforce, workers and communities in our supply chain, workers in collection and recycling and people in our value chain affected by climate change and the transition to net-zero in the areas of labour, discrimination, hazardous working conditions and sustainable income, among others.

4IPCC report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15

5Mitchell, C. (2022). Deforestation: Clearing The Path For Wildlife Extinctions. Source: Worldanimalfoundation.org

6Worldbank.org, 2018

7Sustainable food systems mean growing, producing, processing, packaging, distributing and consuming food without negatively impacting the planet. Retrieved from OECD. (2019). Accelerating Climate Action. Source: OECD iLibrary