Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) announced earlier this year a commitment to eliminate deforestation and conversion of native vegetation of high conservation value for agricultural purposes from all its supply chains, by the end of 2025. This commitment builds on LDC’s global approach to shaping increasingly fair and sustainable food and agriculture value chains.

The ability to trace all suppliers (direct and indirect) is a crucial enabler to achieve this important goal in time. Each grain or oilseed we source must be traceable to its origin, so that the farms they were grown on can be monitored using satellite images, via advanced territorial comparison software capable of indicating any land use changes in areas with native vegetation within farming properties, almost in real time.

Our 2025 zero-deforestation and conversion commitment is the result of several years of work among multiple sustainability, commercial and other teams across our business, with genuine participation at all levels of the company, from top management to commercial managers and teams in the field.

Another important step for biodiversity conservation and GHG emissions reductions has been the creation of LDC’s dedicated Carbon Solutions Platform, which will drive the Group’s decarbonization roadmap and efforts, supported by active participation in both compliance and voluntary carbon credits markets, and in collaboration with climate solutions experts and all of LDC’s business lines to set science-based emissions reduction targets for the Group.