There is huge demand to increase food production whilst preserving soils, reducing emissions and biodiversity impact, and of course, meeting economic targets. Agribusiness faces simultaneous and seemingly polarizing challenges when developing sustainability strategies.
Our client, a leading agribusiness player, needed a new company-wide sustainability strategy. It had to be core to their overall business strategy. This would help them realize their bold and ambitious plans to:
The sustainability strategy would simultaneously:
In early 2022, they began the necessary groundwork. But what became clear was that they needed expert support in shaping the strategy framework.
We collaborated with the client in multiple areas:
Critiquing the draft strategy and translating it into a compelling story and powerful presentation.
Collect and consolidate existing regional and functional initiatives relevant for the new strategy.
To successfully engage regional business units and key functions globally. We also supported the design and successful facilitation of workshops with them.
This covered:
Overall our approach carefully blended our industry and sustainability experience with a productive client partnership. This was central to success.
We successfully shaped a sustainability strategy framework with clearly defined missions and commitments. Our partnership continued beyond the initial project scope. We continued providing support to help land the strategy right up until the public launch in 2023.