The 2024 list of agrifood corporates making regenerative agriculture commitments
The last time we compiled a list of agrifood corporates making regenerative agriculture commitments, it took hours upon hours of reading between corporate jargon lines to understand a handful of companies’ goals.
“research and development projects to assist producer efforts to strengthen and scale regenerative farming practices”
What a difference a couple years makes. In 2024, most major food companies have a page on their websites dedicated to regenerative agriculture (sometimes used interchangeably with “sustainable” agriculture); a large portion of these have clear goals with target dates, too.
The following list is a non-exhaustive look at those goals and ambitions, focusing on many of the world’s largest agrifood corporations. Last time, I mentioned one big challenge is that “regenerative agriculture” still has no set definition.
While that still holds true, the bigger observation in 2024 is the number of companies leaning heavily on sustainability jargon to describe goals. With greenwashing pretty rampant nowadays, it will be important to check beneath the PR-friendly language at the actual acres, dates, practices and prescriptions.
As detached observers, we’re not making that judgement call for any of the following companies. Rather, this list is a summary of agrifood corporate involvement in regenerative agriculture.
The hope is that it can aid in some small way with tracking progress and holding everyone accountable. We update this list periodically and welcome any suggestions for inclusion on it. Send companies along with any thoughts to me via email.
- Money: $100 million · $2 million
- Percentages: 100% · 5% · 20% · 50%
- Figures: 4 million · 1 million · 10 million · 100%
