Cultivating Local Opportunity - Environmental Sustainability

Cultivating local Opportunity At PepsiCo, our agricultural heritage to become Sabritas supply chain partners downturn restricted available credit, gives us a healthy respect for the grains, and are working with the local Educampo we kept local farmers afloat with micro- fruits, vegetables and nuts that deliver Program to provide the seeds, fertilizers, credits, payments for crops, seed credits great taste and nutrition. We rely on local agrochemicals and water usage guidelines and leases for agricultural machinery. farmers to supply our network of global that help farmers produce abundant crops. Our agro-manager teams also consulted facilities with high-quality fruits and This educational, technical and ﬁnancial with farmers and shared best practices. vegetables. These strong partnerships support is enabling 297 producers in poor And in Inner Mongolia, China, we intro- help us ensure consistent freshness and farming communities to cultivate new duced proven environmentally friendly quality, increase crop yields, reduce our economic and social development oppor- irrigation and crop rotation practices that carbon footprint and support families tunities while increasing their average crop save water and help local potato farmers and communities. yield by more than 165 percent. grow thriving crops in the middle of the In Mexico, Sabritas creates a reliable Similar agricultural programs are desert. These farmers are better able to and sustainable market for small and reaping positive results in other countries make a sustainable living by selling their mid-sized corn farmers. We invited them as well. In Russia, when the economic crops at competitive prices.

Cultivating Local Opportunity - Environmental Sustainability

by PepsiCo on Mar 22, 2010

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