Our approach
Creating Shared Value
Today, Creating Shared Value is as relevant as it has ever been. Our purpose is to unlock the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.
The global food system is at a critical juncture. The effects of a warming planet, the resulting nature and biodiversity loss and extreme weather events are more and more evident. Climate change is speeding up the depletion of natural resources and damaging the natural ecosystems we rely on to produce food.
Earth's critical systems are essential to the future of food and agriculture and are also impacted by food and agricultural activities. We make efforts to operate within planetary boundaries while ensuring that we can successfully source the ingredients we need and supporting the communities we serve.
Advancing regenerative food systems at scale
Our ambition to advance regenerative food systems at scale marks a profound development in our thinking.
Each word in this phrase is important and addresses how we are accelerating our activities:
- Advance by raising our voice and using our influence to drive progress, in collaboration with others
- Regenerative to help protect, renew and restore farmland and landscapes
- Food systems encompassing every actor, activity, process and product involved in growing, raising, making, delivering and consuming food
- At scale because the planet, communities and individuals need global, systems-level change
Transforming agriculture for a resilient future
Nestlé works closely with farmers to help them transition to regenerative agriculture, aiming to benefit biodiversity, water, soil health, and to implement practices that help sequester carbon and improve yields.
By 2030, we aim to source 50% of key ingredients from farmers adopting regenerative agriculture practices.
Our Good for You strategy is how we deliver Nutrition, Health and Wellness
Every day, everywhere, people are doing their best to eat well, and through deep consumer insights we understand the barriers that get in their way. This can be access to affordable nutrition, a need for convenience, or finding products and support for specific needs such as healthy longevity and weight management.
As a trusted partner, present in 185 countries worldwide, our ambition is to help bring tasty and balanced diets within reach for billions. We deliver this through our portfolio and products, and through communication and services.
Our Good for You strategy shapes the evolution of our product portfolio while equipping people with the tools, transparency and information necessary to make informed decisions, helping to foster responsible consumption and nutritious choices.
Our R&D provides the scientific foundations for our innovations – from food safety to nutrition and health research to agriculture and packaging – and translates scientific discoveries into product and technology solutions for people and pets.
Supporting a just transition
Our aim is to provide resilient and fair livelihoods and dignified work that enable farming communities across the world to support themselves and their families. The path to regenerative agriculture is long. This is why we are helping farmers by providing financial support, remunerating good practices and offering technical and scientific guidance, through programs like the Nescafé Plan, Nespresso AAA Sustainable QualityTM Program and the income accelerator program. This approach, along with the respect and promotion of human rights, is designed to contribute to a just transition to new practices throughout our supply chains.
Nature and biodiversity
Supporting nature is central to regenerative agriculture practices and essential for addressing climate change. We are working to help safeguard natural resources, in particular forests, which support much of the planet’s biodiversity. We do this through landscape initiatives, as well as initiatives dedicated to water stewardship, and by sourcing ingredients that are assessed deforestation-free.
Partnerships for change
Advancing regenerative food systems is about co-creating a resilient future for our planet and its people, working toward nurturing communities, improving the well-being of our consumers, and revitalizing natural ecosystems. The effort requires understanding and support from all actors involved, from governments, academia and NGOs to peer companies and competitors, financial institutions and commodity traders. We all have a part to play in helping make regenerative food systems a reality.
Benefitting people, nature and the climate
By advancing regenerative food systems and working with farmers to help them transition to regenerative agricultural practices, we can help create a more resilient future for our planet and its people.
Regenerative food systems are not aspirational, they are pragmatic. They benefit the entire supply chain, the whole of the company, and all of global society.
