dsm-firmenich and SaaS sustainability company Sustained partnered to enable customers to report the farm-to-fork environmental footprint of food products containing animal proteins including eggs, meat, milk, and fish.
This agreement, the first of its kind, allows farmers, processors, food manufacturers and retail brand owners to manage and communicate the sustainability of food production by leveraging dsm-firmenich’s Sustell™ service for captuing farm-level specific emissions data and Sustained’s platform to deliver product-level environmental life cycle assessments of consumer food products at scale.
One-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. Companies along the food value chain are increasingly called upon to measure, report and reduce their environmental footprints because of their own sustainability commitments, regulatory requirements, and consumer preferences.
Over 70% of consumers now consider sustainability as a primary driver in purchasing decisions creating a pressing need for transparent and reliable data on sustainability across the entire value chain.
David Nickell, vice president of Sustainability & Business Solutions at dsm-firmenich, Animal Nutrition & Health said that “connecting Sustell™ to the broader data ecosystem through multiple partnerships is key to unlocking the value of sustainability for our customers and the value chain. Our partnership with Sustained underlines our commitment to making this possible. We believe that an accurate, scalable, and credible assessment of a product's environmental impact from farm to fork will help inform consumer choice and drive more sustainable food production.”
“The combined platforms empower businesses to set achievable reduction targets, guide new product development, facilitate eco-labeling, and ensure compliance with evolving regulations based on real production data,” said Nickell.
Carl Olivier, co-founder & CEO at Sustained, added that “until recently, full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for farm and food products has been an expensive, manual effort that exceeded the resource capacity of firms with hundreds or thousands of SKUs. With this partnership we make data management from farm to fork easier to manage and maintain at scale, bringing greater transparency that empowers more sustainable food production and consumption.”
