Maple Leaf Foods has released its 2021 Sustainability Report, highlighting the company’s key 2021 accomplishments. Committed to science-based targets, last year, the first major carbon neutral food company in the world made strides in various areas.
One of these is carbon footprint reduction. To accomplish this, Maple Leaf focused on regenerative agriculture’s potential in capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it back in the soil. Maple Leaf teamed up with Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien to expand on a project that incentivizes and educates farmers in regions where Maple Leaf sources grains to adopt regenerative agriculture practices. In 2021, the project encompassed approximately 20,000 acres of farmland in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The company plans to scale that to 100,000 acres this year.
