ETHICAL SOURCING
WHAT IS YOUR APPROACH TO BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN? When we think about sustainability in our supply chain, we obviously have the ethical sourcing component of it, but there’ s also the larger environmental impacts.
We’ ve updated our water risk assessment, for example, last year to really look at water risk within our two main supply chains, corn and stevia. This is to help our procurement team be better informed and work with our suppliers where we’ re seeing high risk of droughts, for instance.
We also work with suppliers through our regenerative agriculture programmes. We support regenerative agricultural practices in the US, we have a sustainable stevia programme in eastern China with smallholder farmers, and then we combine that regenerative agricultural practice adoption with ensuring that their livelihoods are made sustainable by the process changes that we’ re implementing. You’ ll hear us talk about sustainable agriculture because it’ s marrying together that community aspect with the regenerative agricultural practice adoption that we would really like to see. It helps to reduce the impact on the environment from the farming practices, build healthier soil and all of those practices also add resiliency to the crops, so they’ re becoming a more climate resilient crop.
In our stevia programme, last year was the first year that the farmers said‘ we need this programme, we see value
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