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Mondelez wheat sustainability
program takes next step
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - Mondelez
International has launched Harmony
Ambition 2030, the next stage of Harmony,
its third-party verified European
wheat sustainability program, supporting
regenerative agriculture as part of the
company's goal to help mitigate climate
change, support Harmony farmers and
invest in sustainable wheat research.
Mondelez, Europe's largest biscuits
maker, is addressing environmental
challenges in wheat farming through an
approach to regenerative agriculture. The
company has made sustainability one of
the four pillars of its long-term growth
strategy through a set of environmental,
social and governance priorities.
Mondelez's goal is to grow 100% of the
wheat volume needed for its European
biscuits production under the expanded
Harmony Regenerative Charter by 2030.
" Harmony Ambition 2030 is a key part
of our sustainability strategy, " said Peter
Seymour, senior vice president of marketing
and strategy, Europe at Mondelez. " We
are working with local farmers and partners
across Europe to help create a world
where the wheat for our well-loved biscuits
is grown in thriving and biodiverse environments. "
Created
in 2008 with a handful of
farmers, the Harmony program now is a
collaboration with 1,360 farmers across
seven European countries, combining
scale with a local partnership approach.
legumes to help optimize fertilizer use,
the main source of greenhouse gas emissions
in wheat farming. Mondelez will
approach biodiversity protection in European
wheat farming by widening action
from Harmony plots to whole farms and
from pollinators to overall wildlife. Harmony
farmers also will aim to eliminate
the most damaging pesticides.
* Farmers: To support Harmony farmers
transitioning to regenerative agriculture,
Mondelez International will create the Harmony
Academy, which will provide farmers
with a holistic package of digital and on-theground
training. In addition, farmers will
be equipped with digital tools to help them
ADM opens probiotics and
postbiotics plant in Spain
CHICAGO - ADM has opened a production
facility in Valencia, Spain. Chicago-based
ADM said it invested more than
$30 million in the plant, which is expected
to help meet rising global demand for
probiotics, postbiotics and other products
that support health and well-being in the
United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
ADM said the facility is the world's first
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to produce both probiotics and postbiotics
at the same site and will increase the company's
production capacity by more than
five-fold, to 50 tonnes per year.
" Health and well-being is one of the
three enduring trends powering ADM's
growth strategy: Consumers are increasingly
aware of the role their gut microbiome
can play in their everyday lives, and
Harmony Ambition 2030 will accelerate
progress through an embrace of regenerative
agriculture across three key areas:
* Environment: Harmony Ambition
2030 will address climate change and
biodiversity losses by implementing and
strengthening farming practices, such
as diversify crop rotation by including
record farming practices, calculate environmental
impact key performance indicators
and improve reporting efficiency.
* Consumers: A program run by a Mondelez
research team will look to demonstrate
that more sustainable wheat is also
better-quality wheat. The program has
been co-created with farmers, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), agro-ecological
experts and technical institutes.
The program will be guided by a newly
created Harmony Council, an independent
panel of scientific experts from organizations
such as Arvalis (a French technical
institute run by farmers), INRAE
(a research organization in agriculture,
food and environment) and Noé (a biodiversity
NGO). The council will provide
recommendations designed to support
Mondelez International's commitment to
regenerative agriculture.
The Harmony program has developed
a data reporting system on farming
practices, ensuring full traceability from
wheat storage to plant. External Harmony
audits are conducted among Harmony
partners every year by independent and
certified organizations such as SGS and
Bureau Veritas to guarantee compliance
with the Harmony Charter.
" We kickstarted Harmony Ambition
2030 last year with a test-and-learn
model in France, with partner farmers
having sown Harmony wheat under our
new Regenerative Charter for harvest
in 2023, " said Marie Ellul-Karamanian,
Harmony program lead. " We are excited
to take the learnings from this pilot and
apply them to a wider European rollout
over the next few years. " MBN
they're seeking nutrition solutions that
are backed up by science-based research, "
said Mark Lotsch, president, Global
Health & Wellness.
ADM plans to produce probiotic BPL1
and the heat-treated BPL1 postbiotic at the
plant, as well as other proprietary strains.
The facility will support growth of ADM's
UK-leading Bio-Kult brand of products.
The facility is near ADM's research and
development center in the University of
Valencia Scientific Park, where ADM scientists
participate in genome sequencing
and testing of new bacterial strains. MBN
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