Sustainability

Sustainability is central to our business model

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for all value chain stakeholders: our people, our partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us.

 

View here our latest Sustainability Report

Caring for People

LDC’s approximately 17,000 employees are active in more than 100 countries around the world. It’s our priority to ensure their safety, wellbeing and continued development, by promoting a work environment that encourages safe behaviors, respect for diversity and human rights, and equal opportunities to learn and grow.

Working with Partners

Recognizing that we can have a greater impact by working with others, we leverage our position as a leading agricultural merchant and processor to make a positive difference in our value chains, learning from, training and creating change with others through collaboration and partnerships

Investing in Communities

We invest in the development and resilience of local communities living close to our operations around the world, encouraging our employees to support and volunteer in their communities, wherever they live and work

Protecting the Environment

We are committed to helping sustain a growing population while respecting our planet’s finite natural resources. To minimize the environmental impact of our activities, we continually monitor the way we operate to identify gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement along the value chain.

Responsible Supply Chain

Our highly committed teams work continually to boost sustainability within their respective value chains, leveraging our leading position to promote the adoption of our sustainability policies and standards among suppliers

Sustainability in South Africa

We are committed to supporting local smallholder producers to increase their productivity and profitability sustainably, while helping to protect their environment and drive economic growth in their community.

As part of a recent project with the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, we supported maize farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo region to move from subsistence farming to a more sustainable, business-oriented approach, by improving yields through sustainable agriculture best practice. Focused on women, who represent over 60% of Limpopo’s agricultural workforce, the program aimed to reduce the yield and income gender gap. The project also aimed to encourage local youth to take up maize farming, as a way to alleviate food insecurity and poverty.

We also support educational initiatives in the country, such as the Louis Dreyfus Scholarship Program run in cooperation with the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, which supports students wishing to pursue studies in agriculture at African universities such as the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Egerton University (Kenya).

Sustainability Reporting

Sustainability Reporting

At LDC, we are committed to contributing to the global effort to provide sustenance for a growing global population, working with our partners to create fair and sustainable value across the food chain.

To ensure that we continue to improve, we set sustainability targets across our business and report on our progress regularly, through reports that detail how we have performed.

Our annual sustainability reports also highlight key successes and challenges, and set out LDC’s forward-looking focus to deliver on our commitments to sustainability and transparency.

Download our latest sustainability report

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