Our sustainable future strategy provides a framework for managing our material sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities. The strategy has three pillars – health and nutrition, enhanced livelihoods and environmental stewardship – underpinned by seven critical anchors that provide a foundation for responsible business practice.
Enable consumers to improve their health and wellbeing by providing affordable good nutrition
Improve the livelihoods of thousands of people by providing opportunities for inclusive participation across our value chain
Significantly reduce our environmental impact through innovative solutions
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
Our sustainability strategy presents a forward-looking approach to managing our material sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities. The strategy sets out our overarching ambitions and targets for our three strategic pillars – health and nutrition, enhanced livelihoods and environmental stewardship – with the aim of ensuring that we build long-term resilience, operate ethically and responsibly, and create value in alignment with our purpose to nourish and nurture more lives every day.
We have mapped our strategic goals and critical anchors across the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and prioritised 11 SDGs where we believe we can make the biggest contribution to society through our core business activities.
Over the past year, as we implemented our refreshed business strategy and federated operating model, we have reflected and reviewed on our value chain and the opportunities that it presents in relation to our sustainability strategy.
The three pillars of the sustainability strategy of health and nutrition, enhanced livelihoods and environmental stewardship remain core to our business, however, the initial review did highlight a need for us to revisit some of our 2030 targets to ensure that although stretching, they remain realistic to our current operating environment.
In addition, our newly developed sustainable agricultural sourcing framework aims to enhance livelihoods through inclusive participation and strong labour standards and promote environmental stewardship in our supply chain with the goal of enabling the provision of affordable and accessible nutrition.
In 2026, we will complete a holistic review of our 2030 sustainability commitments with the board and key stakeholders, with the aim of providing revised targets for 2030 and beyond.
Strategic integration of our sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities
Prioritising the implementation of our refreshed strategy and federated operating model has only deepened our resolve to not lose sight of our sustainability commitments. As reviewed earlier in this report (here) and summarised below, addressing our material sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities is increasingly integrated within our business strategy:
Our approach to identifying our sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities is reviewed here.
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
We continue to strengthen our management approach and practices to support ongoing sustainability integration across the business. The emphasis remains on establishing strong foundations that enable us to deliver on our long-term targets, uphold ethical conduct and meet compliance requirements. Aligned with our federated operating model, our approach has evolved to decentralise sustainability management across our operations, placing greater emphasis on category-level and site-level ownership, decision-making and accountability.
POLICY FRAMEWORK
Our sustainable future strategy is backed by a framework of ethical, social, and environmental policies (see table below) that aligns with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements, support corporate governance and ethical business conduct and guide the management of sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities. All policies are subject to regular internal audits to ensure legislative compliance and are routinely updated to reflect contextual developments.
SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS
We have set 2030 targets for health and nutrition, enhanced livelihoods and environmental stewardship and we track our progress against these targets through annual operational KPIs that measure year-on-year progress. We report our performance using clear metrics (here) and publish a consolidated sustainability databook (available on our website).
As summarised in the table below and mentioned earlier in this report, we continuously review our long-term targets to ensure they remain relevant and reflect our changing operational realities.
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