Sustainability: Creating Shared Value

Our purpose is to unlock the power of food and beverages to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.

Creating Shared Value - our strong conviction that a company should create value both for its shareholders and society at large - is at the heart of this purpose. This includes our efforts to reduce our impact on the environment and support communities, while ensuring that we can successfully source the ingredients we need and strengthen the food systems we all rely on.

As part of those efforts, and for several years, we have been addressing climate change, soil degradation, plastic pollution and other challenges through key initiatives, including our Net Zero Roadmap (pdf, 16Mb), our The Nestlé Agriculture Framework (pdf, 20Mb), and our Human Rights Framework and Roadmap (pdf, 5Mb).

Title

Key ingredients sourced from farmers adopting regenerative agriculture practices in 2025*

Percentage

24.52 %

96.7 %

28.0 %

48.2 %

* The scope of this KPI includes the following ingredient categories: dairy (i.e. fresh milk and milk derivatives); coffee; cereals and grains; soy; vegetables; cocoa; palm oil; sugar; fish and seafood; meat, poultry and eggs.

** Learn more in the Environmental Disclosures section of our 2025 Non-Financial Statement (pdf, 18Mb).

*** Learn more in the Social Disclosures section of our 2025 Non-Financial Statement (pdf, 18Mb).

Key terms explained

Regenerative agriculture
In line with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform, Nestlé defines regenerative agriculture as an approach to farming which aims to conserve and restore natural resources, primarily soil, as well as water and biodiversity, while capturing carbon in soils and plant biomass, and to support farmers’ livelihoods. Examples of regenerative agriculture practices include reduced tillage and agroforestry. More information is available in our Nestlé Agriculture Framework (pdf, 19Mb). Read more about regenerative agriculture.

Deforestation-free
Deforestation-free means that commodities in scope were assessed as produced on land that has not been subject to deforestation or conversion after a specific cut-off date that varies by commodity, but no later than December 31, 2020. Read more about deforestation-free.

Responsible sourcing
For Nestlé, responsible sourcing means improving the traceability of our ingredients and monitoring how they are produced. This involves applying our environmental and human rights requirements - detailed in our Responsible Sourcing Core Requirements (pdf, 2Mb) - at the different stages of our supply chain. Examples of these requirements include that land and resources of Indigenous peoples and local communities are respected and that no deforestation and no conversion of forests and other ecosystems occur in our supply chain. Read more about responsible sourcing.