Friesland­Campina launches ‘Nourishing a better planet’ sustainability programme

Positive impact

“It is a programme focusing on a positive impact on farmers, society and planet. Our role as FrieslandCampina is to nourish a growing world population with good, safe and affordable nutrition, whilst taking our responsibility leaving a sustainable impact across our whole value chain - from grass to glass. Building on a strong foundation of continuous sustainability improvements over the years we will focus on six priorities and accelerate to nourish a better planet”, Hein Schumacher, CEO Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., says.

From grass to glass

CEO Hein Schumacher adds: “FrieslandCampina is uniquely positioned because we own a large part of that ‘grass to glass’ chain. This gives us the opportunity to lead with an integral approach working closely together with our farmers and our customers. At the same time it requires us to take responsibility and play a leading role in making a lasting positive impact.”

Six priorities

• Better nutrition, affordable for everyone: Nourishing the growing world population with the power of dairy: good, healthy, tasty and affordable nutrition.
• Better living for farmers: Pay the highest possible performance price to our 17,500 member farmers and improve the lives of tens of thousands of international farmers with our Dairy Development Programme.
• Better climate: becoming carbon neutral by using clean energy, reducing emissions and through carbon sequestration.
• Better nature: having a positive biodiversity impact on member farms leveraging our Biodiversity Monitor.
• Better packaging: making our packaging 100% circular and carbon neutral.
• Better sourcing: sustainably sourcing all the agriculture raw materials and making it traceable to source.

Taking responsibility

Together with our stakeholders we believe we can accelerate our overall progress in key areas. For example, we have developed an internationally renowned Biodiversity Monitor for dairy farmers, together with WWF and Rabobank. The monitoring system has been implemented at our member farms in order to measure and manage biodiversity development at each location. We aim to be carbon neutral towards 2050. The implementation of a carbon footprint monitor measuring greenhouse gas emissions at individual farm level is a big step toward that ambition.

Our farmers are fundamental to provide good and affordable nourishment to a growing world population for now and the generations to come and they continue to lead with innovation in support of “Nourishing a better planet”. Our invitation is to join our journey and accelerate together.