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Farms have been selected to reflect the difference in land size and management
Large, single cropping farming system.
Size of farm
Mango grown as cash crop
Smallholders, typically practice mixed farming,
with limited access to finance and labour.
Subsistence farming, with a few tree [cash] crops](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/rozannedavis-120212093846-phpapp02/75/Rozanne-davis-43-2048.jpg)
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Rozanne davis
The document discusses an organization's approach to sustainable sourcing of ingredients. It outlines the company's philosophy of leaving things better than they found them and balancing the needs of people, planet and profit. It then details the organization's strategy for sustainable ingredients which includes focusing on nutrition, ingredients, production, packaging and legacy impacts. The strategy involves working closely with suppliers, setting their own standards, keeping implementation practical, and tailoring their approach for different ingredients and geographies. Examples provided include working with Rainforest Alliance certified bananas and a project to promote climate adaptation of mango farming in India.
Rozanne davis
- 1. Our approach tosustainable ingredients January 2012
- 2. Question What are thekey hurdles facing us? What might be some solutions?
- 3. an innocent story thechallenge sustainable sourcing
- 4. Our philosophy A simplephilosophy underpins the business Create a business we can be proud of a.k.a The Nursing Home Test
- 5. Company values This corephilosophy drives our 5 company values Create a business we can be proud of Be Be Be Be Be natural entrepreneurial responsible commercial generous • Keep it human, • Chase opportunities • Leave things a • Create growth and • With time where put people first and be responsive little better than profit for us and needed we find them our customers • Make 100% • Be creative and • With praise natural, challenge the status • Reduce impacts • Be tough, and be wherever possible delicious, quo fair • With wealth with healthy stuff, • Prove it can be done • Think clearly, act those that deserve 100% of the time decisively and it • Act and talk keep the main naturally, thing, the main treating others thing as you would want to be treated.
- 6. Our approach •We thinksustainability is about… •Leaving things a little bit better than we find them •Balancing the needs of Planet sustainable business Profit People •And focussing on your main impact areas (from farm to fridge and beyond) Nutrition Ingredients Production Packaging Legacy what we make what we use how we make it how we deliver it what we contribute
- 7. Strategy Sustainable Sustainable Sustainable Sustainable Sustainable Nutrition Ingredients Production Packaging Legacy what we make what we use how we make it how we deliver it what we contribute
- 8. an innocent story thechallenge sustainable sourcing
- 9. Balance It’s not alwaysstraightforward, it’s about finding the right balance Planet Viable natural environment Sustainable development People Profit Nurturing Sufficient community Economy
- 10. Loss of arableland
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- 13. Where to sourceraw materials?
- 14. the issue population energy consumption resources ecosystems water labour We will need to produce more, with less…
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- 16. impacts This presents challengesthrough our fruit supply chain Enough volume Price volatility …of the right quality Sustainable sourcing
- 17. an innocent story thechallenge sustainable sourcing
- 18. 1. Boots onthe ground
- 19. Integration Sustainability is ownedby each supply chain team
- 20. The buy process Sustainabilityis part of every fruit buy Cost Availability Sustainability Quality Risk management
- 21. Get closer We workto understand the social and environmental challenges for each fruit and country
- 22. 2. Set yourstandard
- 23. Our standard We havecreated our own set of innocent standards
- 24. Coverage of theissues No existing certification scheme meets all our requirements innocent X Y Z All types & sizes of Purchasing farms Safety / Quality No additives Non GMO Food safety Social Worker rights/wages Worker safety Product pricing Local community Environment Biodiversity protection Soil conservation Efficient water use Agrochemical bans / restrictions
- 25. innocent standards We haveaimed at a set of standards that cuts across the different areas
- 26. Scope Our standards coverour full supply chain Growing Processing …and we have tried to build in (some) benchmarking to ease the burden on farmers
- 27. 3. Keep itpractical
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- 29. Focus We have brokendown the requirements of the standards into three categories Mandatory • The must haves Required • The want to see soons We also have a different standard for ‘small’ and ‘large’ farms Desirable • The lets work towards
- 30. Growing Need identified We use risk assessment as a Risk assessment phase 0 High level risk AND opportunity scoping practical tool No screamers OR we identify an opportunity Risk assessment phase 1 Risk assessment docs and innocent visit High – medium Low risk risk Risk assessment phase 2 processor response to specific questions OR self-assess against critical elements Corrective action plan if required High- med Low risk risk Innocent or 3rd party audit assess sample farms Corrective action plan Medium - High risk low risk Alternative source Buy certified Investigate or supplier ingredients project need
- 31. Baseline Our assessments arebuilt into a conformance measure…..
- 32. What then? …and theyalso feed into our ingredient strategies Where are we currently • What’s the conformance for the supply base • Where are the macro Where do we need to focus hotspots • What trends are correlated with the hotspots What does the forward journey look like • What should our ingredient strategy look like
- 33. 4. Tailor theapproach
- 34. Ethical ingredients We want to buy our fruit from farms that look after both their workers and the environment We work to understand the issues for each country/fruit and then choose an approach that will best meet their needs and ours.
- 35. Ethical ingredients Rainforest Allianceis an example of what works very well for some of our fruits 1. Covers both social and environmental issues 2. Encourages farms to build their skills and capabilities 3. Works with all types and sizes of farms •All our bananas are from Rainforest Alliance certified farms. •We are steadily increasing our volumes of Rainforest Alliance certified pineapple •We are actively looking at expanding to other (tropical) fruits eg.passion fruit
- 36. Certified fruit Rainforest Alliancedrives positive change for pineapple better soil protection maintain biodiversity reduced pesticides, safer working
- 37. 5. You needto focus
- 38. India A deep diveshows a number of issues
- 39. Background Climate adaptation modelsshow India, the home of mango, is under significant threat Erratic monsoons and changes in temperature will change the face of Indian agriculture
- 40. Background We are investingin a project in the Konkan region 1. Area most susceptible to climate change 2. Significant mango cultivation, 1.6M ha 3. Little scope for other crops
- 41. Climate adaptation Konkan AgricultureUniversity has developed a Five-Point integrated package of practices - we see potential for using this for climate change adaptation
- 42. Objective To demonstrate asustainable model for mango production – to safeguard farm income by mitigating risks caused by adverse weather CLIMATIC IMPACT pest & disease fruit quality loading & productivity CHANGES IN LONG-TERM MANGO SUSTAINABILITY CULTIVATION FARM FARM OF MANGO PRACTICES socio-economic PRODUCTION INPUTS impact OUTPUTS RETURN ON INVESTMENT
- 43. Socio-economic considerations Farms have been selected to reflect the difference in land size and management Large, single cropping farming system. Size of farm Mango grown as cash crop Smallholders, typically practice mixed farming, with limited access to finance and labour. Subsistence farming, with a few tree [cash] crops
- 44. Socio-economic considerations Farms havebeen selected to reflect the difference in land tenure and management Owner not active, but has permanent farm manager Owner, permanently based and active on farm Tenant Land ownership, from owner-manager to landlord-tenant
- 45. Focus areas Flower regulation Canopy management Fruit drop management Nutrient management Pest/disease management
- 46. Findings Two of thefive points of the programme were covered for the 2011 harvest – with good results The five-point programme witnessed a 50% reduction in chemical loading, without increased presence of pest and disease in the groves Fruit retention was 25% higher than the control Shelf-life of mango was noticeably better, with less incidences of postharvest diseases
- 47. 6. Use partnership (topunch above your weight)
- 48. Water strategy Understand and improve water management in the innocent supply chain Measure Protect Improve Educate current areas of supply business usage water chain partners and stress processes consumers
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- 50. Mapping our fruits Waterstress is a measure of water consumption relative to availability of fresh, clean water – we built a picture of the relative water stress between our sourcing countries
- 51. Strawberry and bananafootprint The project recipe covered 4 of the top 5 fruits purchased by innocent drinks, whilst touching a number of water stressed regions orange strawberry apple banana red grape white grape lime
- 52. Spanish strawberry footprint Spanishstrawberry had the highest water footprint
- 53. Competition …and there is competition for water in the region strawberries protected areas
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- 55. Donana National Park wetlands dunes and beaches forests 875 plant species and 226 bird species Annual stop over point for 6 million migratory birds Wintering spot for 500 000 water fowl One of the last refuges for Spanish Imperial Eagle and the Iberian Lynx
- 56. Where to start It’sabout focussing where you can engage and influence
- 57. A choice We faced2 options or Change our Face the sourcing challenge
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- 60. Measurement We have solid(commercial) water usage data (covering 10% of all the strawbs in the region) What water optimisation is possible
- 61. Management The water modelis not simple – but we can get going with some Best Practice Guidelines Farmers in project are starting to implement changes in practice for the new season
- 62. Attitudes The project hascreated a (positive) dialogue on water (Starting) to drive change
- 63. farmer choice We arejust kicking off a second year of the project Feed into regional governance – and a long term solution for the region
- 64. 7. For thefuture
- 65. The future ROI =security of supply mitigate and adapt think wide
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