{"id":1918,"date":"2023-11-22T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2023-11-22T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:44:58","slug":"pepsico-announces-program-to-accelerate-regenerative-agriculture-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/pepsico-announces-program-to-accelerate-regenerative-agriculture-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"PepsiCo announces program to accelerate regenerative agriculture across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PepsiCo announced the third year of its global agriculture program, the Positive Agriculture Outcomes (PAO) Accelerator, by backing eight new innovation projects across nine countries. PepsiCo\u2019s continued investment aims to address some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today, while moving the company\u2019s pep+ (PepsiCo Positive)<\/a> agenda forward. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PepsiCo\u2019s PAO Accelerator offers local farming communities co-investment to accelerate diverse and results-driven Positive Agriculture<\/a> projects, as well as funding for ag-tech start-ups that offer proven products or technology with the potential to scale. This year\u2019s innovations will build resiliency through climate related analysis, improve soil health, and strengthen farms\u2019 climate resilience \u2013 engaging farmers in Australia, Colombia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and the United Kingdom.[1]<\/sup>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t motivate systemic change on our own, and our PAO Accelerator continues to provide a forum for farming communities to bring forth ideas and opportunities, and receive the funding needed to get promising innovation off the ground,\u201d said Margaret Henry, Vice President, Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture at PepsiCo. \u201cWith this latest round of projects, we\u2019re not only fostering this powerful network of innovators across global farmland, but growing closer to achieving a more regenerative future, with farmers\u2019 insight at the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the roster of 2023 projects, will be a project with Australian grain growers to test and validate soil health management practices to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions on-farm. In Colombia, funding will support increasing potato crop quality and yield by installing sprinkler irrigation systems that will also reduce water use. And, in collaboration with 3Keel, a UK-based landscape innovation firm, funding will help connect Europe-based organizations interested in supporting regenerative solutions with local farmland managers who can deliver measurable, sustainable outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInvesting in pioneering agriculture projects is a key action in combatting the evolving climate crisis and setting farmers around the world, up for long-term success,\u201d shared Tom Curtis, Director, 3Keel Group Ltd.  \u201cSupport from PepsiCo\u2019s PAO Accelerator will powerfully enable our team to work with local farmers across Europe to further broker the partnerships needed to accelerate climate action on the ground to strengthen agricultural supply chains for the long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its launch in 2021, the PAO Accelerator has supported diverse projects \u2013 from adopting efficient irrigation systems in response to increased drought, developing kilns to turn agricultural waste into fertilizer, improving soil health, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeaking from experience, prioritizing and investing in climate-smart innovation can uncover solutions for our entire global agricultural supply chain,\u201d said Chris Seymour, Seymour Farms<\/em>, Canada, and 2022 PAO Accelerator funding recipient. \u201cWith support from PepsiCo\u2019s PAO Accelerator, my team gained new insights that helped improved soil health and profitability for my business, even as weather conditions became more unpredictable over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of its pep+<\/a> transformation, PepsiCo’s Positive Agriculture<\/a> agenda prioritizes investment, innovation, and robust collaboration with our farming partners to deliver impact around the world. The scalable outcomes and ongoing investments in agricultural innovation via PepsiCo\u2019s PAO Accelerator continue to support the company\u2019s goal to spread the adoption of regenerative farming practices across 7 million acres by 2030, improve the livelihoods of more than 250,000 people in its agricultural supply chain, and sustainably source 100% of its key ingredients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PepsiCo announced the third year of its global agriculture program, the Positive Agriculture Outcomes (PAO) Accelerator, by backing eight new innovation projects across nine countries. PepsiCo\u2019s continued investment aims to address some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today, while moving the company\u2019s pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) agenda forward. \u00a0 PepsiCo\u2019s PAO Accelerator offers local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financing","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}