Delivering sustainability strategies in the face of often conflicting demands

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.

5 Minutes Agribusiness 12/11/2023
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THE CHALLENGE

Realizing a bold and ambitious plan

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:

  • Increase food production
  • Cut emissions
  • Halt biodiversity loss
  • Preserve soils
  • Resolve farmer poverty

The sustainability strategy would simultaneously:

  • Accelerate leadership in the field
  • Enable growth
  • Realize EBIDTA ambitions

In early 2022, they began the necessary groundwork. But what became clear was that they needed expert support in shaping the strategy framework.

OUR SOLUTION

Establishing the right Engagement, facilitation, and consolidation to deliver sound strategy

We collaborated with the client in multiple areas:

CONTENT CURATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Critiquing the draft strategy and translating it into a compelling story and powerful presentation.

CREATE A BASELINE FOR POTENTIAL COMMITMENTS

Collect and consolidate existing regional and functional initiatives relevant for the new strategy.

FINE-TUNE ENGAGEMENT AND FACILITATE WORKSHOPS

To successfully engage regional business units and key functions globally. We also supported the design and successful facilitation of workshops with them.

PROVIDING PMO SUPPORT

This covered:

  • Aligning and managing a master plan for engagements and meetings
  • Preparing, coordinating, and consolidating outputs from workshops
  • Supporting key stakeholder engagements and communications

Overall our approach carefully blended our industry and sustainability experience with a productive client partnership. This was central to success.

THE RESULTS

Delivery beyond the original brief

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.

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