Foodservice & agriculture

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FOODSERVICE & AGRICULTURE: PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING 21ST SEPTEMBER 2010

The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members

Kevin Pearce Head of Food and Farming

Footprint Forum 21st September 2010



The Economic Value of Farming •  Using three quarters of the UK land area, agriculture and

horticulture contribute £7.1 billion to the GVA of The UK economy.

•  Farm incomes remained stable at £4.1 billion •  The rural economy turns over £300bn each year, and

employs 5.5 million people •  Agriculture alone employs 500,000 people, 1.7% of the

UK work force



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Extending the Nestlé SA sustainable agriculture approach to the Nestlé UK Milk Supply

Tim Innocent

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What is Sustainable Agriculture For Nestlé?

It’s something we do around the world and we call it CSV

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Some of Our Key Initiatives

− We are very active in this area for our key commodities − We look beyond the pure “buying” of the material to ensure that we

have long term sustainable production −  It’s all about working together

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In Particular we are Supporting Dairy Farmers around the world

− Over 100 years experience in dairy − World’s largest dairy company in terms

of sales value − We buy 12 million tonnes of milk per

year from more than 30 countries − 5 million tonnes purchased direct from

farmers − Support farmers to improve

productivity and sustainability

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New Dairy programme: Sub-Saharan Africa

East African Dairy Development, Kenya/Uganda − Building a new dairy industry. − Partnership with the East Africa Dairy Association with support from

the Gates Foundation and Heifer International − Support for 155,000 farming families − Technical assistance on

-  Feeding, breeding, milking -  Food safety management -  Production & quality assurance

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Milk districts & women empowerment, Pakistan

Women livestock workers project with UN Development Programme, Pakistan 5,000 women trained on −  managing healthy livestock −  feed and hygiene of cattle −  breeding −  hygienic milk collection −  water source protection

− Sell their service to thousands of women in their villages

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Moving to the UK

•  Taking these principles we are developing a scheme with our Partner First Milk

•  First Milk is a Farmer owned co-operative producing over 1.6 billion litres of milk each year – approximately 16% of all milk produced in Great Britain

•  I used to say “milk is an ingredient just like sugar” •  I guess I was wrong!!

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So What are we Doing?

− Working with First Milk and their (our) farmers we will develop the − “Nestlé First Milk Academy” − We will pilot this in Girvan

•  This factory takes 40% of the milk in this area:

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By working together we will deliver joint benefits

− A sustainable milk price competitive in the area − A development programme for Farmers to ensure sharing of information − Focus on water usage and best practices

− Working together to deliver the UK Milk Roadmap

− Using our resources to assist the Farmers

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Summary

By working collaboratively with our Partner (First Milk) we are able to:

“ensure we have a sustainable milk supply”!

Thanks


Lord Carter of Coles

‘Innovation and Agriculture’
