The company hit a cumulative 1million acre milestone- which exceeds 100 per cent of its annual US corn supply.
The Coca-Cola Company has enrolled more than 1million acres of its US corn supply in Field to Market’s continuous improvement accelerator, supporting farmers through locally-led conservation projects across the company’s key sourcing regions. Coca-Cola’s projects in the Accelerator utilise Field to Market’s Fieldprint Platform, a pioneering sustainable agriculture platform that enables farmers and the value chain to measure the environmental impacts of commodity crop production and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
The company hit a cumulative 1million acre milestone—which exceeds 100 per cent of its annual US corn supply—at the end of 2020, with support from four primary suppliers: Tate & Lyle, Cargill, ADM, and Ingredion. Corn is used to produce high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), an ingredient in many beverages in The Coca-Cola Company’s portfolio.
Formerly known as Sustainable Agriculture Guiding Principles (SAGP), the PSA reflect the most recent science and external stakeholder perspectives and are based on environmental, social and economic criteria.
Coca-Cola is a founding member of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, a multi-stakeholder collaborative of food and beverage companies, NGOs, commodity growers, agribusinesses and public sector partners committed to defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of commodity crop production.
Ingredients used in the Coca-Cola Company’s beverages account for 20-25 per cent of its climate footprint (21 per cent in the US) and about 85 per cent of its water footprint. While agriculture is a source of greenhouse gas emissions, PSA-promoted practices are designed to reduce emissions and support healthy soils that ultimately will be capable of sequestering and storing carbon.
