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Sustainable Seaweed

Sustainable Seaweed

Red Seaweed Promise™ - leading the industry towards a thriving red seaweed sector for generations to come.

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To help ensure a long-term sustainable red seaweed supply chain, Cargill has launched the Red Seaweed Promise™. The program is specifically designed to address key sustainability challenges for the harvesting and cultivation of red seaweed, while enhancing producer livelihoods, supporting local communities and conserving the marine environment. Red seaweed is the raw material needed to produce carrageenan, a texturizer used in various applications such as dairy, confectionary and personal care products.


The program also answers food industry and consumers’ needs for more sustainable food ingredients, with a commitment to source 60 percent sustainable red seaweed by 2025.

Sustainable Seaweed Commitment

It is our ambition to enable seaweed producers and their communities to achieve better incomes and living standards in a way that will accelerate progress towards a sustainable and transparent global seaweed supply chain by focusing our investments and efforts across four priority areas.

Empower Seaweed Producers

Provide training, coaching and tools to support best environmental, and safe production practices.

Strengthen Partnerships

Leverage Cargill's network to strengthen the close partnerships with suppliers to achieve a sustainable red seaweed supply chain.

Improving production and harvesting practices

Develop accessible, responsible and resilient production and harvesting systems.

Community Support

Strengthen seaweed producers and their communities, ensure no child or forced labor, promote gender equality and break down barriers to economic empowerment.


Continuous Improvement

To reaffirm our long term commitment to red seaweed producers and their communities specific continuous improvement action plans are developed specifically matching the regions where Cargill sources.


Independently verified
 

Proforest logoThe program is independently assessed and verified by Proforest - a world leader in supporting the sustainable management and sourcing of natural resources and smallholder development.

The Cargill supply chains assessed to date by Proforest have been rated as sustainable.

Cargill Carrageenans

Carrageenans

Cargill offers one of the widest ranges of commercially available carrageenans, employing proven production processes and using a large variety of different types of red seaweeds (Rhodophyceae) from the Gigartinales group.

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