A large share of the food sector’s climate impact comes from the primary production of raw materials. Through our sustainable farming agreement, we aim to promote the wider adoption of more sustainable farming practices for our key raw materials, such as Finnish oats. We have offered this option to our contract farmers since 2025.
The measures set out in the agreement aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming, improve soil health and increase carbon sequestration in the soil.
Our target by 2030:
Grain is by far the largest raw material category we use. That is why understanding the climate impact of cultivation is essential to making our climate work more effective.
We have been calculating the carbon footprint of oats since the 2023 harvest and have since expanded this work to other grains. By collecting farm-specific cultivation data from farmers, we can calculate the emissions from the grain we use more accurately. This data helps us identify the factors that drive emissions in cultivation. It also gives farmers practical information they can use to reduce their emissions.
The data also supports our customers’ climate work, as emissions from purchased raw materials and products are part of many companies’ own value chain emissions.
We have been calculating the carbon footprint of oats since the 2023 harvest and have since expanded this work to other grains.
Our target by 2030:
Biodiversity is shaped especially where raw materials are grown — in fields and other primary production environments. That is why we are developing our biodiversity work together with farmers and raw material suppliers.
As part of our carbon footprint calculations, we are mapping biodiversity in the field ecosystems of our contract farmers. We also consider biodiversity risks in raw materials whose production may be linked to deforestation or impacts on natural habitats.
In 2026, we aim to prepare a comprehensive biodiversity plan. This will define the targets, metrics and key actions for our biodiversity work in more detail.
We have joined the Saaristomerikumppanit (Partners of the Archipelago Sea) initiative coordinated by the John Nurminen Foundation. The initiative brings together companies from the food industry, retail and agriculture to reduce the impact of farming on water bodies in the Archipelago Sea catchment area. It supports the goals of our sustainability programme by advancing sustainable farming, biodiversity and the well-being of the Baltic Sea.