DuPont Details Food Security Goals
7 February 2012 DuPont outlined its food security goals aimed at addressing innovation, education and rural community development.
The goals will be tracked along with DuPont’s sustainability goals.
“No one company, country or non-profit organization can meet the challenge of feeding the world alone,” said Ellen Kullman, DuPont Chair and CEO in a statement. “Establishing specific, measurable goals for what we can do to address that challenge is key to turning talk into results.”
The DuPont food security goals which the company aims to complete by 2020 include:
• Innovating to Feed the World: Investing $10 billion in research and development and introducing 4,000 new products centered on producing more food; enhancing nutrition, food and agriculture sustainability and safety; boosting food availability and shelf life; and reducing waste.
• Engaging and Educating Youth: Facilitating 2 million engagements of young people around the world in educational opportunities.
• Improving Rural Communities: Improving the livelihoods of at least 3 million farmers and their rural communities through targeted collaboration and investments that strengthen agricultural systems and make food more available, nutritious and culturally appropriate.
This is in addition to the work already being done to enhance the lives of hundreds of millions of farmers through DuPont’s normal business practices.
The DuPont food security goals were developed following a report issued last year by the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agriculture Innovation and Productivity for the 21st Century, chaired by former U.S. Senator Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota.
DuPont has broadened its sustainability commitments beyond internal footprint reduction to include market-driven targets for both revenue and research and development investment.
The goals are tied directly to business growth, specifically to the development of safer and environmentally improved new products for key global markets.
Source: DuPont, Edited by Stefanie A. Toth, Online Editor
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