Ardo CSR rapport 2024 - Flipbook - Page 63
We are Ardo
The path to a more
sustainable food system
Minimal environmental
impact
Supporting farmer Producer Organisations
Agronomy
MIMOSA+
Food safety, quality
and innovation
Unilever, Jumbo, Agrifirm and Ardo
launch “Het Wortel Collectief”
We highly value our close relationships with our farmers,
as they play a crucial role in the quality of our vegetables,
In Zundert (NL), we are collaborating with Unilever,
herbs, and fruit. To reinforce this partnership, we have actively
Jumbo, Agrifirm, and our farmers on a regenerative
established and supported farmer producer organisations across
farming project called "Het Wortel Collectief" (“The Carrot
our various growing regions for many years. These organisations
Collective”), named after the first crop we are focusing on:
serve as a platform for collaboration, enabling us to co-invest in
carrots. Through suppliers Agrifirm and Ardo, the carrots
mechanisation, advanced technologies, and research initiatives
ultimately end up in Unilever products, such as the Unox
that drive innovation and sustainability in agriculture.
soups, while frozen carrots are sold in Jumbo stores.
The four partners are working closely together and, over
the coming years, will contribute to broader knowledge
development on regenerative agriculture. In the future,
Ardo strengthens the SAI Platform
this initiative should be integrated into a broader crossindustry collaboration such as the Regenerative Innovation
Emilie Haspeslagh, our Sustainability Director, has been
Portfolio1, as this is needed to drive adoption
elected in June 2024 as member of the Executive Committee
of regenerative agricultural practices at farm-level.
of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform.
Her role underlines Ardo’s commitment to a sustainable
food system and strengthens our ties with the SAI Platform.
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The Regenerative Innovation Portfolio is an ecosystem collaboration launched as part of the Food Innovation Hub Europe initiative by the World
Economic Forum, funded by EIT Food and delivered by EIT Food and Foodvalley NL. It brings together a wide range of actors across Europe
to drive the critical systemic changes needed to transition our food system towards greater sustainability and equity, while producing
healthier food for the future.
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