Our approach to sustainability

Across our aqua nutrition business, we take a comprehensive approach to creating more sustainable products that benefit our customers, consumers, and the planet.

What we do

Cargill’s aqua nutrition business helps customers meet the world’s growing demand for sustainably grown fish and shrimp with high-quality feeds that are tailored to each species’ nutritional needs. Our aqua feeds account for variation in specific environments and markets while meeting the sustainability goals of Cargill and our customers.

We source upstream ingredients, transform them into nutrient-rich feed for global aquaculture production, and deliver it to our downstream farming customers, who produce the seafood that nourishes people around the world.

Thanks to the scale of our operations and our central position in the supply chain, we can positively impact the food system in all directions.

Backed by our decades of experience, technical capabilities, and market expertise, we are uniquely positioned to connect supply and demand, facilitate the exchange of best practices and information, and help our partners up and down the value chain work profitably while producing more food and using fewer resources.

Our global brands 

Our products embody the deep knowledge and expertise built over many years across Cargill, Purina and EWOS brands. Across the world, we have many regional brands serving local customers. Five global flagship brands make up our globally relevant portfolio.

	Cargill® offers a full range of animal nutrition and management solutions for producers, feed retailers, and feed manufacturers. Our global reach allows us to source the ingredients needed for high-quality aqua feed. Our feed formulation and mill management systems are recognized as the best in the industry.
	EWOS® is a longtime leading brand in the aquaculture industry, with a well-earned reputation as a trusted feed provider in all major salmon farming regions, as well as in Vietnam with feed for tropical fish species.
	Purina® brings more than 100 years of experience, providing a full program of easily digestible, high-energy nutrition for shrimp and fish.*
	AQUAXCEL® extruded nutritional solutions maximize the growth potential of shrimp and strengthen their health in any culture system.
	Liqualife®, engineered for shrimp post-larvae, uses microencapsulation technology that keeps nutrients intact until consumed. It increases feed availability and nutrient delivery while reducing water quality impacts.

How we manage and govern sustainability 

At the corporate level, Cargill has global sustainability policies, commitments, and programs, led by Chief Sustainability Officer Pilar Cruz.

Our aqua nutrition business takes a holistic approach to sustainability across the value chain. Every day, we work to protect both marine and terrestrial ecosystems, supporting our customers and suppliers in achieving their business and sustainability goals. We are organized to drive progress in all facets of our business and make a positive impact from the world’s oceans to the food on people’s plates.

We have historically emphasized marine and terrestrial ingredients, as well as helping farmers improve their efficiency. Today, our scope is considerably broader both inside our operations and across the value chain. We account for all the resources we use and work to minimize our global footprint, considering social impacts as well as environmental ones.

This includes a dedicated sustainability management program for our aqua nutrition business. It is aligned with Cargill’s corporate-level approach, although the materiality of the aqua nutrition industry requires specific strategies. Our sustainability team collaborates on the implementation of these strategies with our commercial teams across markets. This structure allows us to address global priorities as well as local issues, including customer and stakeholder engagement, market and ecosystem conditions, raw material impacts, and other relevant topics. We continue to build capacity and expand our capabilities to address sustainability issues and accomplish our goals, incorporating a continuous improvement approach to the work we do.

In line with Cargill’s Guiding Principles, we are committed to ethical business practices. We administer annual business ethics trainings to all employees, the specifics of which vary based on job function.

To ensure the integrity of the products we offer, we demand that suppliers follow our sourcing policy and Cargill’s Supplier Code of Conduct. The sourcing policy stipulates that those who sell raw materials to us must abide by our sustainability principles and have environmental and social risk management procedures in place. Read more about our sourcing requirements here.

We use many of the leading certification systems in our industry to demonstrate how both our own products and the materials we source from suppliers are made. We set the same clear and consistent standards for our sourcing teams and our suppliers.

*PURINA® and the Checkerboard design are licensed trademarks of Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. Available outside the U.S. only.