ALMENDRAVE supports the Code of Conduct for Responsible Business and Marketing Practices (hereafter, the Code of Conduct), as a key instrument of the European Commission’s From Farm to Fork strategy.

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

ALMENDRAVE conducts projects and initiatives with its partners as well as with the “Frucom” European Association, which supports the goals of the Code of Conduct, including but not limited to:

• Promoting and facilitating healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets;

• Promoting the consumption of fruits and vegetables, especially nuts;

• Preventing and reducing food waste;

• Promoting sustainable methods of production;

• Creating sustainable value throughout the nut supply chain;

• Developing the sector’s environmental footprint to optimise the supply chain and reduce the environmental impact of nut consumption;

• Facilitating sustainable supply;

• Facilitating sustainable and local trade.

Aspirational objective 1: Healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets for all European consumers, thereby contributing to: 

1) Reversing malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the EU;

2) Reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption by 2030.

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved food consumption patterns in the EU;

b) A food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable diets.

Aspirational objective 2: Prevention and reduction of food loss and waste (at the consumer level, within internal operations, and across value chains)

With the following aspirational target: 

A 50% reduction of per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030 and reduced food losses along the food production and supply chains in the EU.

Aspirational objective 3: A climate-neutral food chain in Europe by 2050

With the following aspirational target: 

Reducing net emissions from own operations, contributing to a 55% GHG emission reduction target in the EU food chain by 2030 (following a science-based approach).

Aspirational objective 4: An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resource efficiency within own operations, contributing to sustainable, efficient use and management of energy and natural resources in operations by 2030;

b) Improved food and drink packaging sustainability, striving for all packaging towards circularity by 2030.

Aspirational objective 5: Sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030;

b) Quality jobs, skilled workforce, and safe and inclusive workplaces for all.

Aspirational objective 6: Sustainable value creation in the European food supply chain through partn

ership

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030;

b) Continued progress towards sustainable production, contributing to sustainable management, efficient use of natural resources by 2030, and improved animal welfare.

Aspirational objective 7: Sustainable sourcing in food supply chains

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Transformed commodity supply chains that do not contribute to deforestation, forest degradation, and destruction of natural habitat and which preserve and protect high-value ecosystems and biodiversity;

b) Improved social performance in (global) food supply chains.

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.