Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
G4-EC7, Procurement practices G4-DMA, FP2, Supplier environmental assessment G4-DMA, G4-EN33, Supplier assessment for labor practices G4-DMA,
G4-LA15, G4-HR5, G4-HR10, G4-SO9, G4-SO10
Our objectives
By 2015 – Source 100 000 tonnes of cocoa through the
Nestlé Cocoa Plan and complete our school building
programme to build 40 schools in four years.
Volume of cocoa purchased under the Nestlé
Cocoa Plan (tonnes)
Goal: 100 000 tonnes by 2015
2015 121 481
2014 91 801
2013 62299
By 2016 – Source 130 000 tonnes of cocoa through the
Plan and complete the roll‐out of our Child Labour
Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) to identify
child labour in all Nestlé Cocoa Plan co‐operatives in Côte
d’Ivoire * . (See Human rights and compliance for more
information.)
By 2017 – Source 150 000 tonnes of cocoa through the
Nestlé Cocoa Plan.
By 2018 – Source 175 000 tonnes of cocoa through the
Nestlé Cocoa Plan.
*
We have updated our sourcing target for 2016.
To ensure a sustainable supply of good-quality cocoa, we plan
to continue increasing the amount of cocoa purchased through
the Nestlé Cocoa Plan. In 2015, we purchased 121 481 tonnes
of cocoa – 30% of our total – through the plan, and will increase
this annual figure to 130 000 tonnes in 2016 (an increase to our
original goal of 120 000 tonnes) and to 175 000 tonnes in 2018.
A high proportion of this cocoa was sourced from farms
and plantations that meet the UTZ certification Code of
Conduct for Cocoa standard, one of the largest sustainability
programmes for coffee, cocoa and tea, and the Fairtrade
certification standard.
As well as increasing the volume of cocoa procured through
the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, we also aim to increase the proportion
of all our global cocoa supplies represented by it.
Global cocoa supply sourced via the Nestlé Cocoa Plan (%)
2015 30.0
2014 23.0
2013 14.5
0%
50%
100%
Number of high-yield, disease-resistant plantlets distributed
(million)
2015 1.71
2014 1.60
2013 1.06
KitKat cocoa becomes
sustainably sourced
KitKat has become the first global confectionery brand sourced
from 100% certified sustainable cocoa, supplied through the
Nestlé Cocoa Plan. The initiative, which coincided with KitKat’s
80 th birthday, will take place from the first quarter of 2016.
KitKat already used only sustainably sourced cocoa in
certain markets, but will now extend this worldwide, including
to the United States.
The achievement of 100% sustainable cocoa is in line with
what the UTZ and Fairtrade schemes allow in managing a
mass balance approach.
Training farmers
We trained 66 320 cocoa farmers in better agricultural
practices in 2015. A variety of methods, including farmer field
schools and farmer business training, were used to help
improve farm profitability. Subjects included good agricultural
practices, such as pruning, which encourages greater fruit
growth and helps control plant disease.
Number of cocoa farmers trained
2015 66320
2014 45833
2013 33885
Cocoa Plan takes root in
Ecuador
Ecuador exports about 65% of the fine cocoa produced
worldwide. However, its unique floral cocoa is under threat, due
to farming practices that are substituting local trees with other
varieties that have better yields. The majority of the floral variety,
known as nacional, are controlled by smallholders, who have
reacted to decreased crop yields by planting the new breeds.
As part of the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, our objective is to ensure
the long-term, responsible supply of cocoa beans from
Ecuador to Nestlé, while improving social and environmental
conditions for farmers, their families and communities.
Through the plan, we improve farmers’ technical skills, using
workshops, classroom and field training, and certification
programmes. We also encourage the planting of nacional and
other cocoa trees to reforest and improve biodiversity, and
have distributed approximately 700 000 nacional plants to
farms since 2009.
The Nestlé Cocoa Plan has had a direct impact on farmers.
In 2014, 2930 farmers and their families benefited. By the end
of the year, 699 farms were UTZ certified for social and
responsible farming.
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