The Group represents major commercial chains like Ahold Delhaize, Aldi South, Aldi North, Asda, Co-op (UK and Switzerland), Lidl, Marks & Spencer, Migros, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose & Partners – which taken together operate nearly 50,000 supermarket outlets.
Although deforestation and conversion risk is widespread in soy sourcing areas, it is particularly acute in areas such as the Cerrado in Brazil and he Gran Chaco, stretched between Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia, in South America, noted the Retail Soy Group's report outlining the new commitments.
The commitments
The supermarket chains will cut-off agribusiness traders in Brazil from lucrative markets by 2023 if they continue to buy soy from deforesters.
They will impose a cut-off date of August 2020 after which they will not accept embedded soy from either legal or illegal conversation of native ecosystems. And they will cascade these requirements to their direct and indirect suppliers while imposing clauses in supplier contracts.
The retailers will apply these new stipulations at the group level, which means suppliers will not be able to sell ‘clean supply’ in one part of their supply chain while continuing to support deforestation in another.
They will adopt a sourcing strategy in the wider context of respecting producers, supporting human rights and ensuring community development as critical complementary elements of sustainability.
They also say that reducing dependence on soy means also finding pathways to alternative proteins, meat reduction and non-soy animal feed.
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