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3 Who is Unilever? Worldwide turnover - € 40.4 billion in ,000 employees in 100 countries 150 million people buy our products every day Foods brands account for over half our sales

4 Unilever and Agriculture

5 Lead Agriculture Programmes Tea Started 1999 Kenya, Tanzania and India Palm oil Started 1999 Malaysia (sold in 2002), Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Tomatoes Started 1999 Brazil and California 2005 Greece Spinach and peas Started 1998 UK 2000 Germany and Italy

6 3 strands LAPs Roll-out to suppliers Extension beyond key crops Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

7 Measuring Improvement * Step 0 Conventional Indicator Parameter Scores Step 1 Eco-efficiency Step 2 Regenerative Technologies * Based on Discussion Paper produced for Unilever by Professor Jules Pretty - University of Essex

8 Indicators and Parameters 1. Soil Fertility Health 4. Pest Management 5. Biodiversity 6. Value Chain 11. Animal Welfare 10. Local Economy 9. Social/Human Capital 8. Water 7. Energy 2. Soil Loss 3. Nutrients

9 How... Baseline measurements Field and Factory records Novel in field measurements Working with experts - NGOs, Academics

10 What we’ve learnt… We generated a lot of data - complexity Linking practice to improvement Supply chain driven - where’s the brand equity Prioritization & Pragmatism

2004 to Date:Two Tiers IaIa IbIb IcIc IdId A1A1 A2A2 A3A3 Indicators & Issues LAP activities Soil health Biodiversity Value Chain Nutrients Soil compaction research Field margin programme Optimised fertilisation strategy 11

Output 12 (1) List of potential sustainability issues (by Indicator) (2) Classification of LAP response to issue (Not applicable/relevant, Managed, No action, Not looked at) (6) Colour code depending on Profiling Scores (3) Short prose description of LAP response(4) Reference to detailed description (Tier 2) (5) Scores for three Profiling Criteria (anchored scales); set of criteria used depend on Classification (Column 2)

Flowchart guiding through process Output 13

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15 Activity Reports Highly detailed information Measurements and Parameters Methodological and technical information Environmental, social and business context

16 Where next... Further prioritization: Using our 2 tier approach Review in 2006 Fewer, but truly performance based indicators Not forgetting our Tier 1 checklist!

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