Barry Callebaut has announced the launch of its first dairy partnership to reduce impact on climate emissions with Arla Foods, through the *FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership program. This three-year collaboration marks an important step in the decarbonisation of Barry Callebaut’s dairy supply chain, starting with skimmed milk powder sourced from the UK.
Through this partnership, Arla will provide annual primary carbon footprint data linked to the dairy volumes supplied to Barry Callebaut at farm level. This will support the company’s Scope 3 emissions reduction journey and accelerate the roll-out of decarbonisation initiatives on dairy farms in the shared supply chain.
The collaboration marks an important milestone in advancing Barry Callebaut’s Net Zero roadmap and reinforces its efforts to develop scalable low-carbon dairy solutions with strategic suppliers. It also contributes to Barry Callebaut’s broader Net Zero Chocolate Solutions, which enable customers to reduce the end-to-end footprint of their cocoa and chocolate products through targeted partnerships.
This partnership represents the interconnectedness of sustainability and sourcing working together at Barry Callebaut
"We are pleased to work closely together with Barry Callebaut on our shared goal to reduce emissions from dairy, says Cathrine Konge Varming, Senior Director Sustainability Innovation & Development at Arla. "Through the partnership, we can further support the actions our farmer owners are taking to produce high-quality dairy as efficiently as possible while providing valuable data for Barry Callebaut's reporting purposes. It is a clear example of two ambitious companies living up to their responsibility and recognising the importance of collaboration."
This partnership represents the interconnectedness of sustainability and sourcing working together at Barry Callebaut. The partnership demonstrates that decarbonization is not only about carbon data, but about building long-term partnerships capable of driving change at farm level.
Key principles of the partnership include primary farm-level carbon footprint reporting, alignment with recognized greenhouse gas (GHG) and dairy carbon methodologies, and the use of incentive payments for farmers that apply practices that reduce emissions.
This strategic partnership between Barry Callebaut and Arla marks an important milestone in Barry Callebaut’s Net Zero roadmap. As the company’s first partnership focused on reducing on-farm emissions and incentivising farmers in dairy, the initiative lays a strong foundation for future collaborations and reinforces Barry Callebaut’s commitment to decarbonizing its value chain, thereby also supporting its customers to achieve their own climate targets.
