Companies active in the agrifood system are minimising their impact on the environment by creating virtuous circles. This way they contribute to a food system that is responsive to the challenges of climate change and population growth.

A circular agrifood system requires collaboration

As the CEO of Duynie Group – part of Royal Cosun – I am familiar with our expertise in creating new value from co-products (residual streams) produced by the food and biofuel industries. We use these co-products to create products and ingredients for food stuffs, animal feed and non-food applications such as wallpaper glue.
In line with the Cosun ambition to become 100% circular, we aim to fulfil a pivotal role in this transition and to facilitate the required collaboration. All links in the value chain are important to creating a circular agrifood system, together. It is the only way to achieve a leverage effect, through which to create virtuous circles and to make the food system resilient and future-proof. This does require that everyone speaks the same language and that we agree on how to measure which impact.
Fortunately, an excellent method is already available:<a href="https://www.duyniegroup.com/en-US/sustainability/our-partners/environmental-impact" title="Environmental impact"> the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)</a>. This method allows us to measure and analyse the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its life cycle. It is a scientifically validated approach that incorporates in its analysis the supply of co-products (e.g. potato peel or brewers’ grains) and how the resulting products and resources are processed.
Based on the LCAs, all links in the chain gain insight into the environmental impact of the supply and use of co-products. This tells companies to what extent they are meeting the sustainability goals of their suppliers and customers in the chain. The method also helps to identify remaining opportunities to create virtuous circles and to reuse co-products. Sustainability ought to be part of every company’s business model. By adopting circular systems as much as possible and by measuring the progress by means of LCAs, we can build a sustainable agrifood sector.

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