Knorr will launch 50 regenerative agriculture projects across the world to reduce food’s impact on the climate

Estimated to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions and water by +/-30% whereas enhancing biodiversity, soil well being and livelihoods*

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —

• Knorr, Unilever’s largest meals model, commits to develop 80% of key components (greens, herbs, spices, grains), globally, following Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture Ideas by 2026.

• As a part of Unilever’s commitments to local weather motion, Knorr will work with suppliers and farmers to search out new methods to develop and diversify meals in direction of a constructive impression on nature, whereas sharing learnings with others to develop for good.

Regenerative agriculture means farming that may create constructive outcomes by way of nourishing the soil, growing biodiversity, enhancing water high quality and local weather resilience, capturing carbon and restoring and regenerating the land.

Knorr’s 50 regenerative agriculture initiatives construct on greater than 10 years of sustainable agriculture collaborations with farmers and suppliers which has resulted in 95% of Knorr’s greens and herbs being sustainably sourced, globally, and 99% within the UK. With meals contributing to multiple third of greenhouse fuel emissions and being a number one reason for soil and species loss**, sourcing and rising in a manner that minimizes impression is just not sufficient.

“We have to work with nature and ecosystems – not towards. Earlier this yr we launched Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture Ideas to assist the rising of meals with a constructive impression on nature. Now Knorr is placing the rules into observe – and sharing learnings alongside the best way in order that others can do the identical.”– Hanneke Faber, World President of Meals and Refreshment, Unilever

These regenerative agriculture initiatives shall be phased over the subsequent 5 years, to be scaled to 50 initiatives with companions by 2026, globally. The three initiatives began this yr are exhibiting promising outcomes.

• Soil well being: In Western Spain, in partnership with Knorr’s provider Agraz
  (Conesa Group), tomato farmers have applied practices to enhance soil well being with the primary harvest exhibiting elevated yield.

• Local weather resiliency: In Pas de Calais (Northern France), in partnership with PURProject and Inexperienced Sol, vegetable provider Ardo has applied practices to enhance soil well being and local weather resiliency in response to decreased yields as a result of adjustments in climate circumstances.

• Water preservation and lowered emissions: In Arkansas, US, in partnership with Knorr’s greatest rice provider, Riviana, a set of farming practices that protect water and reduce greenhouse fuel emissions are being applied. Along with the University of Arkansas, innovative methods to measure reductions in greenhouse fuel emissions and water captured have been created and tracked.

Knorr’s regenerative agriculture roadmap is a part of the Unilever Local weather & Nature Fund, a €1 billion fund that may speed up the group’s work on nature and local weather initiatives. Knorr’s plan will contribute to Unilever’s dedication to assist defend and regenerate 1.5 million hectares of land, forests, and oceans by 2030.

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As the most important meals model inside Unilever, Knorr is suited to make use of its place within the provide chain and available in the market to check and study and scale implementation, all whereas sharing learnings and data with a coalition of companions and lecturers to remodel the best way meals is grown– for good.

The important thing components (greens, herbs, spices, grains) grown utilizing regenerative agriculture rules shall be in Knorr’s merchandise that are sol 3.1 billion occasions a yr throughout greater than 90 international locations. This challenge plan is essential to Knorr’s function to reinvent meals for humanity with the ambition to get meals that’s good for folks and the planet on seven billion plates by 2025.

About Knorr

Knorr’s ardour for higher cooking and consuming goes proper again to the model’s beginnings in 1838. Knorr is proud to be the 8^th most chosen FMCG model on the planet (based on Kantar World Panel) and Unilever’s largest meals model. Knorr merchandise are offered in additional than 90 international locations around the globe and the merchandise are chosen 3.1 billion occasions per yr, in 379 million houses yearly. The recipes on Knorr web sites encourage greater than hundreds of thousands of individuals every year. Knorr’s function, globally, is to reinvent meals for humanity. In 2019 Knorr, along with WWF-UK launched the Future 50 Meals as a thought management piece, stating the ambition to get meals that’s good for folks and the planet to the lots. In 2021 Knorr created World Eat for Good Day – calling the world to take motion to alter the world by altering what’s in your plate. Knorr’s funding in regenerative agriculture is the subsequent step on the journey to reinvent meals for humanity.

For extra details about Knorr’s function go to knorreatforgood.com and for extra about Knorr Future 50 Meals go to knorrfuture50foods.com.

*This was calculated based mostly on estimations of impacts of Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture Principles

** Willett, Walter, Johan Rockström, Brent Loken, Marco Springmann, Tim Lang, Sonja Vermeulen, Tara Garnett, et al. “Meals within the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Fee on Wholesome Diets from Sustainable Meals Programs.” The Lancet 393, no. 10170 (February 2019): 447–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4.

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