Giving Compass' Take:

• Tina May, Senior Director of Sustainability at Land O’Lakes, and Dan Sonke, Director of Sustainable Agriculture at Campbell Soup Company discuss how farmers are using the TruTerra Insights Engine to help advance sustainability in food supply chains.

• How can donors support other tools that drive sustainability?

• Read about impact investing in food sustainability.

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Tina May, Senior Director of Sustainability at Land O’Lakes, and Dan Sonke, Director of Sustainable Agriculture at Campbell Soup Company, discuss how farmers are leveraging their new agriculture technology—the TruTerra Insights Engine—to quantify their impacts on climate while maximizing their profits.

The TruTerra Insights Engine (TTIE) is one of the tools Land O’Lakes uses as part of their SUSTAIN initiative—a network that connects farmers, retailers, and food companies. “TTIE measures the impact of farming practices on climate change to advance soil health, water quality, and climate-smart agricultural practices,” says May. “There are many tech tools out there that help farmers of all sizes…and what the TTIE was built to do was to complement those already existing agtech tools and really help a farmer track, understand, and provide insights into how those crops were grown. It then tracks the climate impacts in real-time, and projects and quantifies those climate impacts into dollars and cents calculations.”

Campbell Soup Company uses TTIE to inform the company’s sustainability strategies, offering insights into how the company can improve outcomes on the farms that grow their ingredients. “For Campbell’s soup, we look at the landscape of sustainability and challenges related to enforcing sustainable agriculture,” says Sonke. “TTIE has already told us what is going on in a positive way, but it also shows us opportunities to do better with those farmers.”

Read the full article about integrating sustainability into supply chain by Aaron Mok at Food Tank.