Sustainability Report 2021

2021 Highlights
Message from the CEO
Cargill in Brazil
How we operate in Brazil

Photo of a grain storage silo, highlighting the large metal structures of the grain elevators

2021 Highlights

Foto de silo de armazenamento de grãos, destacando grandes estruturas metálicas dos elevadores de cereais

10.348

employees

+ de R$ 100 billion

in operating revenue

+ de R$ 1 billion

invested in Brazil

231 farms (totaling almost 1.2 million hectares) participating in the ‘3S’ Program that offers technical assistance and supports the soybean farmers offering them the chance to improve their social, environmental, management and production indicators

Inauguration of
the pectin plant
in September, using thermal power drawn entirely from
biomass and biogas

Investment of
U$ 30 million
to kick start the Land Innovation Fund for Sustainable Livelihoods, created to protect South American ecosystems

Message
from the CEO

Photo of the president of Cargill, in a gray suit and blue shirt, without a tie

The ability of our teams to continue working, whilst being entirely protected, thus preventing the spread of Covid-19, reinforced our clients’ understanding that we are a reliable partner, despite the enormous challenges.

Over the course of 2021 we undertook numerous important actions providing support for producers to be able to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, with a view to achieving our goal of ensuring our chains are free from deforestation.

We inaugurated our unit for the production of pectin in Bebedouro, in the interior of São Paulo, and we actively work to increase the competitiveness of our factories, with the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies.

We see Brazil as the planet’s leading food provider and, to fulfill our mission of feeding the world, we have continued increasing our investments in the country. We believe in the strength of the agriculture here, due to its fully complete chain and use of local raw materials and services, its creation of employment and distribution of income to the community as a whole in all sorts of different regions, including the most economically fragile locations.

Paulo Sousa

CEO of Cargill in Brazil

Global priorities and
commitments

CLIMATE

To reduce emissions amongst our direct suppliers and extended chain by 30% per ton of product by 2030
To reduce our absolute emissions by 10% by 2025

EARTH AND WATER

ícone de árvore simbolizando o solo e água

To transform our supply chains in order to free them from deforestation and conversion by 2030.
To develop the sustainable management of water in our operations by 2030
To implement our Water Stewardship program in all our 81 priority units¹
To restore 600 billion liters of water to our priority drainage basins
To improve access to drinking water in 25 priority drainage basins
To reduce water pollutants in our priority drainage basins by 5,000 tons

PEOPLE

To improve the means of subsistence of 10 million farmers by 2030
To promote and respect human rights

¹ Water stress and the use of water were used to select Cargill’s 81 priority units. Together, they are responsible for more than 80% of our total operational use of water.

Cargill in Brazil

Putting people first

Putting people first is one of our values. Over the course of 2021, this was continually put into practice:

Photo showing Cargill employees, two men and one woman, participating in a meeting, all looking in the same direction

We intensified our communication in order to maintain the measures implemented for prevention of Covid-19, reviewed and updated our protocols for the manufacturing units, and developed communication campaigns encouraging vaccination
We developed actions to raise awareness of mental health amongst our employees
We continued to offer the Cargill Cares Support Fund, created in 2020 to offer financial support in cases of need
We created a stress management program for our senior management, thus providing our leaders with the opportunity to take better care of themselves and their teams

Photo of a soy producer and a Cargill employee, both standing side by side, examining a bunch of soybeans the employee is holding

Photo of industrial equipment mat filled with selected tomatoes

SOYBEAN

Mapping with polygons of farms for monitoring
‘3S’ - a soybean sustainability program developed by Cargill
'Agro Plus Program’ - providing support for farmers’ development

COCOA

'Farmforce’ pilot project - an app developed by Cargill for tracking raw materials
'Cacau Fértil’ - a study of soil fertility and nutrition of the crops
‘Entrepreneurship School for the Women of Xingu’ project
encouraging farmers to obtain sustainability certifications

PALM

Advances in the certification of our plants in relation to the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) criteria.

TOMATOES

Start to finish monitoring of the production of the tomatoes acquired

We transform raw materials into finished products

We provide insights for our partners

We supply raw materials for agricultural production

In order to meet the needs of the agricultural, food, bio-industrial animal nutrition segments to the very highest of standards, our processes are performed with the utmost care. They involve safety in the operations and in our products, the relationship with our suppliers, our pursuit of productivity, efficiency and socio-environmental responsibility.

Safety

In 2021, we developed 12 programs covering aspects relating to the safety of people, our processes and the environment. We also implemented a pre-qualification stage, prior to bidding, for any service related to activities identified as being of high-risk in our operations.

Industry 4.0

We began our Smart Manufacturing program, with the installation of advanced sensors and analysis systems. The result allows for analyses of historical data to be performed and for operational parameters to be identified, leading to better results, with the models being made available to the operating team, in the form of monitors and dashboards, with a view to the digitization being repeated more frequently.

Pectin plant

In September, operations started at our factory focused on pectin production. The plant consumes thermal energy that is entirely generated from biomass and biogas (arising from the treatment of the effluents created at the plant itself) and involves a number of integrated energy systems.

The environment in our operations

We are committed to the sustainable management of the resources used in our operations and we work on various fronts to achieve our global sustainability targets.

Take a look at the most important actions pursued in 2021 relating to
hydro-resources and climate change and emissions.

Photo of two Cargill employees looking in the same direction, taking in a port area with an industrial facility

We aim to predict and meet our clients’ needs

Our clients include companies and multinationals from the agricultural sector, from the food and beverage industry, rural producers, cattle farmers, bar and restaurant chains, handmade chocolate manufacturers, as well as supplying the end consumer with our own line of products. Here are some of the principal activities pursued in 2021:

Follow the main initiatives carried out in 2021:

Agricultural segment

Implementation of the ‘Cargill Frame’, a digital platform that streamlines the pricing process performed by our clients
Provision of a chatbot, enabling access to information such as addresses and safety instructions pertaining to our units
A GPS portal, providing the client with data concerning their main commercial operations with Cargill

Animal nutrition

Renewal of our portfolio in the poultry, pork, and dairy and beef cattle markets, with eleven product launches.
Creation of a sustainability committee designed to propose actions and monitor the initiatives developed

Bioindustrial

Launch of the Biovero® line of plasticisers, a substance used in flexible PVC applications, such as flooring, paving, tarpaulins and synthetic leathers, plastic films, wiring and cables.

Food and beverage and food service businesses

A new integrated strategy designed to serve our corporate clients
Launch of the website www.cargillfoodservice.com.br and of the Pomodoro tomato sauce in a 1.02kg package
New line of the ‘Genuine’ chocolate frosting in the form of coins.

Final consumer

Creation of Instagram channels for the Liza, Pomarola and Elefante brands, attracting hundreds of millions of views.
Launch of products such as Purilev Abacate (avocado oil), Liza Algodão (cottonseed oil) and Elefante Só Tomates (tomato puree).

10 years of 'Ação Renove o Meio Ambiente' ('Renew the Environment Action')

the biggest cooking oil reverse logistics program in Brazil

6,9 million

liters of cooking oil recycled

+3.500

oil disposal points throughout the country, located in 17 states and 214 cities

+450 schools

engaged

Sustainability Report

2021