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On Tuesday, April 13, the seventh chat in the Digital Food series took place. Cargill's Anke Hamminga explains how her company has developed its own metrics to achieve its goal: nourishing the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.
Anke Hamminga, sustainability lead EU at Cargill, showed how her company is working on a new methodology to clarify contradictory choices modern consumers and their suppliers make with the intention of doing the right thing. Cargill intends to stay neutral but wants to raise awareness amongst their clients and consumers about the consequences of so-called sustainable choices serving nature and opposing climate change.
“Nourishing the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way is very broad, since it touches upon many different topics", says Hamminga, putting Cargill's purpose into perspective. For every goal, Cargill has metrics in place, which is an accomplishment in itself. “Not because it is so hard to write it down, but because it is important to track and trace how we are doing and how we achieve these goals.”
Global Feed LCA Institute
Cargill has developed the GFLI (Global Feed LCA Institute) guidelines. This set of metrics is used to identify opportunities for improvement and determining impacts. The firm has based the principles on its experience with the development of the European Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs). The PEFCR was developed into the GFLI Global Feed LCA Institute so that organizations worldwide can benefit from the work done on a European level.
“Nourishing the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way is very broad, since it touches upon many different topics", says Hamminga, putting Cargill's purpose into perspective. For every goal, Cargill has metrics in place, which is an accomplishment in itself. “Not because it is so hard to write it down, but because it is important to track and trace how we are doing and how we achieve these goals.”
Global Feed LCA Institute
Cargill has developed the GFLI (Global Feed LCA Institute) guidelines. This set of metrics is used to identify opportunities for improvement and determining impacts. The firm has based the principles on its experience with the development of the European Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs). The PEFCR was developed into the GFLI Global Feed LCA Institute so that organizations worldwide can benefit from the work done on a European level.
Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules
The European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method is designed to help companies make substantiated claims about their product’s impacts, reduce assessment cost and improve product comparisons. The Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) can be used for calculating the Environmental Footprint profile for products in scope, like feed for food-producing animals, still and sparkling wine, and dairy products. The ruleset feed for food-producing animals measures across 16 impact categories, including land, water and resource use.
The European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC, Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés) has developed the PEF.
The European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method is designed to help companies make substantiated claims about their product’s impacts, reduce assessment cost and improve product comparisons. The Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) can be used for calculating the Environmental Footprint profile for products in scope, like feed for food-producing animals, still and sparkling wine, and dairy products. The ruleset feed for food-producing animals measures across 16 impact categories, including land, water and resource use.
The European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC, Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés) has developed the PEF.
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Carolien, indeed, it was an industry initiative. But did you know Big Bad Cargill drove it? Even you seem to think they are bad.
From the text above, it may appear that Cargill took the initiative to found GFLI. This is not the case: the GFLI is a broad organization, initiated by (various representatives of) the feed industry. Also, the Dutch Product Board Animal Feed, Wageningen University and Blonk Consultants were involved in the first phase of the development of FeedPrint. Cargill's 'claim to fame' seems to backfire, as expressed by the reaction of Frank.
Nice words ok.
Little farmers still take the majority of the food production. That used to be more sustainable. But that has changed. My trust in the big players, in destructive GMO - mass market control, Wall Street, bad practices, strongly interconnected with Cargill in Latin America and in the USA ??? They wil have to change a lot in these to change my opinion.
Frank, we know that’s a common opinion. Can you tell us what you think of the GFLI?
Cargill is the biggest initiator of - together with GMO multinationals and f.i. the RABO, agricultural meat industry, AHOLD.. Taking advantage of the corruption in Latin America, little farmers, sustainabillity disappearing. Also in the US achieving more and more power in food production. All in for the money and power. Not trustworthy at all.