SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 24, 2026 -- Nestlé has pledged support for the Regenerating Together Programme, a new cross-industry initiative developed by the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform to help scale regenerative agriculture practices across global food supply chains. The program, backed by more than 40 food and agriculture businesses, provides practical implementation guidance, transition support, and verification protocols to improve consistency and transparency in how regenerative practices are adopted and assessed across supply chains. Nestlé's participation aligns with its stated target to source 50 percent of its key ingredients from farmers adopting regenerative agriculture practices by 2030. The initiative follows more than four years of cross-sector development work and pilot programs spanning 23 farming systems across 25 countries.
SAI Platform Builds a Cross-Sector Framework After Four Years of Development
The Regenerating Together Programme did not emerge quickly. SAI Platform developed it over more than four years, drawing on input from farmers, agronomists, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and industry participants. Pilot initiatives ran across 23 farming systems in 25 countries before the program reached its current form. Environmental organizations including The Nature Conservancy and Earthworm Foundation are backing it. That development timeline and breadth of input give the framework credibility that shorter industry initiatives often lack. The result is a structured approach designed to translate regenerative agriculture commitments — which are common — into verifiable action on the ground, which has historically proven harder to achieve consistently.
Program Addresses a Core Credibility Gap in Regenerative Agriculture Adoption
Regenerative agriculture has attracted broad corporate interest, but uptake across supply chains has been uneven. One persistent obstacle is the absence of shared definitions and verification standards, which makes it difficult for companies to assess whether practices adopted by suppliers actually deliver the outcomes claimed. The Regenerating Together Programme directly targets this gap. Its framework establishes protocols for how regenerative practices are adopted, monitored, and verified, creating a common reference point across the value chain. For food companies sourcing from multiple regions and farming systems, that consistency matters. It reduces the cost and complexity of implementing regenerative programs at scale and builds the kind of trust between buyers, suppliers, and farmers that sustains long-term transition.
Pascal Chapot, VP Head of Agriculture at Nestlé, said regenerative agriculture shows significant potential to strengthen supply chain resilience against climate change while improving farmer livelihoods, and that practical, credible frameworks consistently applied across the value chain are essential to accelerating adoption. He described SAI Platform's program as a significant step forward in simplifying implementation, building trust, and supporting meaningful impact at scale.
Nestlé's 2030 Ingredient Sourcing Target Shapes the Strategic Case for Participation
Nestlé's commitment to source 50 percent of its key ingredients from farmers adopting regenerative practices by 2030 sets a concrete deadline. That timeline is now less than four years away. Joining a program with structured transition support and verification protocols is a practical step toward meeting that target at the supplier level. Without frameworks like the RTP, reaching that scale would require Nestlé to design and manage its own verification systems across a global supplier base — a resource-intensive proposition. Participation in a shared industry program distributes that burden while maintaining the credibility of the sourcing commitment.
Farmer Livelihoods and Supply Chain Resilience Sit at the Center of Nestlé's Rationale
Nestlé frames its regenerative agriculture work around two converging priorities: building supply chain resilience and improving farmer livelihoods. Both are under pressure from climate variability, which affects crop yields, input costs, and long-term land productivity. Regenerative practices — covering soil health, biodiversity, and water management — are positioned as responses to those pressures rather than purely environmental commitments. For a company sourcing key ingredients at Nestlé's scale, disruptions to agricultural systems in any major sourcing region carry direct commercial consequences. Investing in supply chain resilience through regenerative practice adoption is, in that framing, a business continuity strategy as much as an ESG commitment.
40-Plus Industry Participants Strengthen the Programme's Value Chain Reach
The RTP's breadth sets it apart from bilateral programs between single buyers and their suppliers. More than 40 food and agriculture businesses are involved, which means the framework has potential reach across multiple supply chains simultaneously. When a regenerative agriculture program is adopted by a single buyer, farmers who supply multiple customers face the cost of complying with different standards from each. A shared industry framework reduces that burden and increases the likelihood that individual farmers and cooperatives will engage with the transition. For Nestlé, operating within a program that its peers and suppliers' other customers also use simplifies coordination and may accelerate adoption among shared supplier networks.