Delighted to have been part of the development of this industry-aligned, farmer-informed, impact-led framework for Regenerative Agriculture after a long 3 years of cross-industry collaboration and co-development from its early days being ideated by a small group of us within the Americas Working Group to the forming of a dedicated, financed programme by the forward-thinking Founding Members to now a mainstream, fully-fledged v1 to be tested and further refined by the broader SAI membership and beyond!
Providing a common “definition” alongside a flexible “choose your own adventure” approach for growers to drive impact based on their own particular context, the broader programme also plans to:
✅ Support the benchmarking of existing company-specific and voluntary regenerative agriculture schemes
✅ Be integrated with existing SAI tools for crop and animal systems - the FSA, ERBS, and SDP - to allow for an holistic, seamless approach to assessing on-farm and landscape-level sustainability and regeneration
✅ Provide, through an aggregated and evolving data bank of credible impact measurement tools, a platform for monitoring, measuring, verifying and reporting (#MMRV) that will allow growers and supply chains to also VALORISE (#MMRVV) regenerative activity on farm, whether through; production system cost-savings or yield improvements; specific ecosystem service payments; carbon & nature tax avoidance; generation of natural capital assets on a corporate’s balance sheet; brand growth/market share protection though credible, verifiable data and engaging case studies; or through reputational integrity.
Massive thanks to Dominik Klauser, Lexi Clark, Julia de Candido and Dionys Forster for all the hard work, particularly in the final sprint. To Nick Betts for your early leadership and positive response to your “constituents” in the Americas WG which included strong and expert contributions from Kevin Ogorzalek and @RebeccaLarson amongst others. Thanks also to my fellow SteerCo members and especially Iver Drabaek, with whom I was honoured to Co-Chair the SteerCo last year, and Yves Leclerc who has so ably stepped in as Chair this year.
Now for the hard work of #RegeneratingTogether to drive impactful transformation for farmers, for planet, for the food industry and for all citizens for whom access to safe, nutritious food, produced within planetary boundaries, should be a right not a privilege.
Lucas Urbano Sarah Lockwood Rebecca Thomson Jo Lawrence Margaret Henry Pascal Chapot
The Kraft Heinz Company #RegenerativeAgriculture
📣 Today SAI Platform, unveiled our latest initiative the “Regenerating Together” programme and its' global framework for #RegenerativeAgriculture at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit.
🌾 Our vision for "Regenerating Together" is to unite the entire agriculture industry with a common purpose: creating a future-proofed food system that regenerates natural ecosystems and improves the quality of farmers' livelihoods.
🌏 As an industry first ‘Regenerating Together’ offers an industry aligned definition of regenerative agriculture and has the potential to trigger large-scale, long-term systemic change.
👩🏼🌾 Together with our members, SAI Platform has established an aligned approach to agriculture that aims to mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change, improve soil health, support biodiversity, retain water in the soil and reduce its consumption while keeping farmers’ business viability central in a just transition approach.
🌿 Regenerating Together is developed for use at farm-level to drive farmers' transition to regenerative agriculture. It will allow crops, dairy and beef farmers anywhere in the world to work with supply chain partners to achieve measurable regenerative agriculture outcomes and enables the industry to translate the often-ambiguous concepts of regenerative agriculture into action at farm level.
🌱 We would like to thank the founding members for their expertise, guidance and hard work in developing and progressing our Regenerating Together programme and global framework for regenerative agriculture. This is agriculture powered by people!
ABF Sugar Ahold Delhaize Arla Foods Barry Callebaut Group Bayer Bonduelle Cargill Cocacola Now Danone Dairy Farmers of America Diageo DöhlerGroup FrieslandCampina Griffith Foods Ingredion Incorporated Kellogg Company Kepak Group Koppert The Kraft Heinz Company Mars McCain Foods McCormick & CompanyMcDonald's Nestlé Nordzucker AG Ocean Spray Cranberries PepsiCo Starbucks Südzucker Syngenta Treatt Unilever Yara International
🤝 Join us in this transformative journey towards a regenerative future for agriculture. Together, we can make a lasting impact on the environment, support our farmers, and ensure a #SustainableFoodSystem for generations to come.
➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dS-3CFGT
#RegeneratingTogether #SAIPlatform #RegenAg #RegenerativeAgriculture #PeoplePoweredAgriculture
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Love seeing the ongoing progress of the farmers. Great support strategy for suppliers!