SERVICE & PROJECT SPOTLIGHTS continued

Danone North America’s Soil Health Initiative Exceeds 2022 Goal

Excerpt from the originally released article by Danone North America 1.27.2022

Danone holds a global commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 by helping to reduce the company’s carbon footprint (or scope 3 emissions). Developed in collaboration with Sustainable Environmental Consultants, the R3™ ROI Tool is designed to give farmers a comprehensive view of their operations and forecast the return on investment of personalized sustainability practices to drive increased adoption. The web-based application serves as a benchmarking and comparison tool that uses farm-specific verified data – deployed from the EcoPractices platform developed by Sustainable Environmental Consultants –to show the projected impact of change in farming practices, allowing farmers to evaluate their specific operations.

The R3™ ROI Tool proposes targeted practices as part of Sustainable Environmental Consultant’s Sustainable Continuous Improvement Plan™ (SCIP) which is utilized to advance regenerative agriculture practices on farms. The SCIPs are built from the independent third-party data with the goal of helping farmers learn from their soil to maximize environmental impact all while providing science-based benchmarks to set short and medium-term goals. Once a practice is selected, the R3™ ROI Tool provides models with forecasted returns on investment to help farmers understand the potential financial impacts regenerative agriculture can have on their farm to enable decision making and prioritization.