Our Partners

Industry Partners

Nestlé

For over 150 years, Nestlé has been producing food and beverages that enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future. We have more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favourites, and are present in 187 countries worldwide.

We are the Good food, Good life company: Good food nourishes and delights the senses. Good food also respects our planet and protects resources for future generations. We focus our energy and resources where unlocking the power of food can make the greatest difference to the lives of people and pets, protect and enhance the environment, and generate significant value for our shareholders and stakeholders alike.

Our business must contribute to ensuring that society lives within planetary boundaries. We have committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions throughout our company by 2050 at the latest, covering all three scopes. In December 2020 we will launch a roadmap detailing our carbon footprint and the interventions we’ve identified to reach our objectives to 2025, 2030 and beyond.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.

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Strategic Partners

BRF

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JBS

JBS is one of the world’s largest food companies. With a global platform diversified by product type (poultry, pork, beef & lamb, fish as well as plant-based and alt-protein), the Company has over 260,000 team members in production units and offices on all continents, including Brazil, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and China, among others. Worldwide, JBS offers an extensive portfolio of brands recognized for excellence and innovation: Swift, Pilgrim’s Pride, Seara, Moy Park, Friboi, Primo, and Just Bare, among many others, which find their way onto the tables of consumers in 190 countries every day. The Company also operates correlated circular economy businesses including leather, biodiesel, collagen, personal hygiene and cleaning, natural wrapping, solid waste management solutions, recycling, metallic packaging and transport. All JBS operations prioritize the high quality and safety of its food products, and best practice sustainability and animal welfare standards throughout its value chain, with the aim of feeding people around the world in an increasingly sustainable manner.

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Mastercard Foundation Fund

The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity was established in 2023 with an objective to address the barriers that hinder the creation of opportunities for dignified and fulfilling work for young people. These include young women and men, refugee youth, and youth living with disabilities. The Fund will address a broad spectrum of SME specific challenges as well as macro issues using four interventions:

1. Offering direct financial support through a challenge fund to organizations with high growth potential and the ability to scale up innovative and resilient business models.

2. Providing investor readiness support to the SMEs and negotiation of partnerships with potential financiers to ensure sustainability and growth.

3. Adding value beyond financial support through technical assistance and capacity building;

4.Convening and influencing through experienced partners and digital platforms to drive systemic change by convening relevant stakeholders.

KPMG is the Fund Manager for this program which is a partnership between the Mastercard Foundation and KPMG from 2023 to 2030. The Fund’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Partner is Triple Line Consulting.

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Vertical Future

Founded in 2016, Vertical Future (“VF”) is a global vertical farming technology and data company and Global Innovator in the World Economic Forum. The VF team design, manufacture, and build a range of proprietary hardware and software technologies, including an integrated vertical farming system – fully-automated from seed through to harvest, and back. Powered by its proprietary “DIANA” SaaS system that tracks, analyses, and improves the entirety of the growing process and underlying crop science, VF is building a global network of data-enriched, smart farms, with projects focusing on everything from traditional crops through to alternative proteins, perfumes, animal fodder, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals.

VF’s partners, customers, and farms can be found across the UK and as far as Singapore. VF is also a recognised leader for R&D grant wins, including a collaboration involving NASA.

Growing in a Vertical Future farm means greater efficiency, higher quality crops, less land use, and enhanced water and fertiliser conservation compared to broadacre and glasshouse production methods.

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