Overview
Our ambition is to ensure the most sustainable food supply chains in the world.
Our purpose is to be the leader in nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. It’s who we are. It’s why we exist. As the world faces extraordinary challenges – from climate change to food insecurity – delivering on our purpose is more critical than ever before.
To deliver, we’ve identified the most material issues to our business. This prioritization was completed in partnership with external stakeholders and takes into account the significance of the environmental, social and economic impacts of our diverse business and supply chains. Within each of these strategic priorities, we have set goals and objectives.
Our global priorities
Agriculture is how we help people and the planet thrive
We believe that many of the solutions to challenges facing people and the planet today can be found in the very place our food system begins: agriculture. Agriculture can be a force for good. We aim to empower farmers and workers, support our communities, promote safe and fair working conditions, and ensure food is nutritious and plentiful for all.
We’re also driving progress on priorities that safeguard our planet and ensure we’re operating our business in a sustainable way. Through our work with key partners, collaborative initiatives with our customers and constantly innovating the products and services we offer, we are committed to creating impactful change that leverages our scale of operations and reach.
By empowering farming communities, protecting land and regenerating our soils, we’ll nourish this growing population – safely, responsibly and sustainably.
Read more about our priorities and our work in making our supply chains more sustainable
Priorities
Sustainable supply chains
Transparency and governance
Cargill’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Ruth Kimmelshue, leads oversight for the company’s policies and programs to deliver progress against our global commitments. The Cargill Executive Team reviews the company’s progress on a quarterly basis at an enterprise and business level. We report progress externally through our company’s annual report in addition to annual and biannual supply chain reports. All of our reports, supply chain grievance dashboards and other public information can be found on our Reporting Hub.
Recent sustainability progress reports
Ocean Transportation
Cocoa and Chocolate
Aqua Nutrition
Soy
Palm Oil
Connection to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Join Us
We're committing $30 million to source innovative ideas to protect forests and native vegetation in Brazil. We openly call on others to join us in this commitment.
Sustainability features
Valentine’s chocolate takes on new meaning with sustainability and innovation
This Valentine’s Day, chocolate will bring joy to people all over the world. What they might not realize is the journey chocolate makes from cocoa bean to heart-shaped box is one that requires responsibility and innovation every step of the way.
In Cameroon, a new roadmap to deforestation-free cocoa
A new framework is bringing together industry stakeholders to promote a sustainable cocoa sector in Cameroon and protect the third-largest forest range in the Congo Basin.
Progress report: Transforming our cocoa supply chain to be deforestation-free
Across all five countries where Cargill directly sources our cocoa, as well as in the indirect cocoa supply chain, we are making strong progress on delivering our Protect Our Planet strategic action plan.