Sustainable Supply System

Vision

We envision a supply system that profitably yields high quality, safe products without supply interruption while creating a net benefit for employees, their communities, biodiversity and the environment.

Principles

Our work towards a socially responsible supply system is motivated by our commitment to our customers, leadership on sustainability issues, and our desire to "do the right thing". With this foundation we will:

• Use a systems aproach to understand how our supply chain impacts and is affected by teh natural and social world and to help us find solutions.
• Maintain a long term view when supply planning and setting expectations.
• Combine a global perspective with locally-developed responses that meet local needs and generate on the ground results
• Base our strategies on the best sciences available
• Work with our suppliers to promote continuous improvement
• Balance our long term responsibility goals with the near term need to perform in a competitive market.

Guidelines

Social & Economic

• Protect the health and welfare of the employees and contribute to the development of the communities in which we operate
• Seek ways to increase economic profitability by increasing resource use efficiency and harnessing the benefits of ecological services

Environmental

• Maximize water use efficiency and eliminate the realease of nutrients, pesticides and waste into water
• Minimize the release of harmful byproducts into the air
• Maximize energy use efficiency and use ecologically sustainable renewable sources when feasible
• Minimize waste production, maximize recycling and ensure proper handling of disposal of solid waste
• Maintain soil healthy controlling erosion and improving structure and fertility
• Preserve natural habitats for native species and production of biodiversity.
• Minimize the use of chemical pest management inputs that impact humans, animals and environmental health.