Conserving natural resources
“Optimisation of soil and water management is the basis of our sustainability programme at our farms.”
The global beef value chain manages natural resources responsibly and enhances ecosystem health. This principle is based on the concept that ecosystem processes are managed through adopting practices designed to sustain and restore ecosystem health throughout the beef production system. Such practices enhance biodiversity and provide ecosystem services including water recharge, filtration and conservation, ensuring healthy soil conditions and contributing to resilience, including the ability of ecosystems to recover from extreme climate and weather events. This principle is achieved through continuous improvement across all criteria, in which the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef plays an important role. Compliance with all local, national and international laws applicable to natural resource usage is mandatory.
We practice what we preach. At the basis of our sustainability program at our farms in Brazil lies the optimisation of soil and water management. By using modern technologies, we have cultivated dry and arid ground preventing further erosion and degradation of the lands. We also ensure that from every farm a minimum of 20% of the land remains pristine natural forest, thus preserving the biodiversity and ecological systems.
A minimum of 20% of the land remains pristine natural forest
Social compliance
Supply chains are becoming increasingly complex within a global marketplace. It is more imperative now than ever for companies to improve visibility over their production and to drive improvements across their supply chains wherever possible. Amfori BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) has enabled companies to trade with purpose by improving social performance in their supply chain since 2003.
Amfori BSCI unites more than 2,000 companies around a development-orientated system that is applicable to all sectors and sourcing countries. We have integrated the criteria offset out in the Amfori BSCI code of conduct into our business operations. For more information about Amfori BCSI, please visit: http://www.amfori.org/
For example, our investments in our Brazilian farms have resulted in new residential homes for farmers and their families, which raises the general standard of living and educational opportunities for the farmers and their children.