Tag: Louis Dreyfus Company

Coffee sector leaders launch industry-first global mapping initiative to accelerate the transition towards a deforestation-free coffee sector

Stuart Mitchell

The Coffee Canopy Partnership, initiated by JDE Peet’s (now part of Keurig Dr Pepper) was launched today to advance the identification and remediation of coffee-related deforestation. Developed in collaboration with leading coffee companies including JDE Peet’s, Louis Dreyfus Company, Sucden, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, Touton, Sucafina, and Tchibo, the Partnership will create the world’s first comprehensive, openly-accessible map of global coffee production to identify deforestation risks, support landscape restoration and protect the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. Using Airbus’s advanced satellite technology, the Partnership will map coffee farms across coffee-growing…

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LDC Launch New Soy Sustainability Policy

Stuart Mitchell

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), one of the largest producers of Soy has announced that it is moving towards zero deforestation in its soy supply chain by embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its updated raw materials strategy. As part of its new Soy Sustainability Policy, LDC has committed to publish information on all soy plantations it sources from – either directly or indirectly – as it already does with palm oil. LDC’s statement read: “Soybean oil is already the second most widely used oil in the world. And…

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