Four Key Sustainability Efforts for 2024
Food and beverage brands continue commitment to sustainable industry evolution
Bobo's, known for oat bars, oat bites and baked goods, announced its new partnership with Rabobank's Acorn initiative to help the snack brand reach its carbon neutrality goals and further invest in a more sustainable future. The amount of carbon captured by the trees and plants planted as part of Acorn's agroforestry program is monitored with remote sensing techniques. Each ton of captured carbon represents one carbon removal unit (CRU). These CRU's, which are traceable, certified and nature based, are sold to responsible companies like Bobo's. But it's the local farmers who benefit the most. With 80% of the sales revenue going directly to the farmers, it creates a substantial additional income stream and helps them adopt a more future-proof and sustainable way of farming.
Bobo's Partners with Acorn to Support Sustainable Agroforestry Farming Practices
As part of the initiative, Bobo's purchased carbon removal units to offset its bakery carbon emissions
Bobo's, known for oat bars, oat bites and baked goods, announced its new partnership with Rabobank's Acorn initiative (Acorn) to help Colorado's snack brand reach its carbon neutrality goals and further invest in a more sustainable future. Bobo's purchase of carbon removal units to offset its bakery carbon emissions is helping to combat climate change. It does so by leveraging Acorn's new and powerful approach to carbon sequestering working with thousands of smallholder farmers using agroforestry. In this case, Bobo's removal credits will be supporting agroforestry practices for local coffee farmers in Tanzania.
Kellanova Introduces Snack Lines with Reduced Plastic Packaging
Brands with updated packaging include Cheez-It® Snap'd®, Cheez-It® Puff'd® and Club® Crisps
Three popular snack brands, Cheez-It® Snap'd®, Cheez-It® Puff'd® and Club® Crisps, have reduced the amount of plastic used in their packaging (compared to the same volume last year), while maintaining the same amount of food in each package. The packaging designs were optimized, reducing the total material weight for these three foods by 672,000 pounds, reducing 124,000 pounds of plastic and reducing 548,000 pounds of corrugated cardboard used for shipping cases (annually).
Four Companies Making an Impact in Regenerative Agriculture
Leading food and beverage companies and retail and foodservice operators are committing to aggressive goals to offset climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. One strategy impacting the processors and ingredient suppliers is the broad shift to future purchases of ingredients developed through regenerative agriculture.
Regeneration International defines regenerative agriculture as farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity. The goal is both carbon drawdown and an improved water cycle.
How Consumers, Food Processors Approach Sustainability
Two industry experts discuss sustainable demand and industry strategies in 2024
Each year, New York University’s Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) partners with Circana (formerly IRI) to examine consumer purchases of sustainability-marketed consumer packaged goods (CPG). Last March, the partners released their fourth annual report, which summarized 2022 consumer insights and behaviors data.
For a look ahead at sustainability in 2024, Prepared Foods reached out here to Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Scholar, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and Doug Yolen, Circana’s Vice President, Food & Beverage, Media Center of Excellence.
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