Agriculture & Food Industry

EU requirements increasingly connect food companies to upstream traceability and downstream waste performance. The EU Deforestation Regulation covers cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood and specified derived products; under the current timeline, due-diligence obligations apply from 30 December 2026 for larger operators and from 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators. The amended Waste Framework Directive (EU) 2025/1892 requires Member States to achieve by 2030 a 10% reduction in food waste from processing and manufacturing and a 30% per-capita reduction across retail, food service and households, compared with the 2021-2023 annual average. PPWR also affects food packaging, while corporate climate programmes increasingly need FLAG and wider Scope 3 emissions.

Priority projects include farm-level carbon and water data, fertiliser and methane reduction, regenerative or improved agronomic practices, renewable energy, food-loss prevention, packaging optimisation and cold-chain efficiency. Product footprints should distinguish biogenic carbon, land-use change and agricultural emissions carefully and use crop- and geography-specific data where material.

Metsims can support agriculture and food companies with product LCA, Product Carbon Footprint, water footprinting, corporate Scope 1-3 inventories, FLAG-related emissions analysis, supplier and farm-data programmes, and decarbonisation strategies. Food-loss and packaging scenarios can quantify how operational improvements affect both resource use and product footprints.

For EUDR-exposed supply chains, Metsims can help map covered commodities, sustainability data needs and supplier traceability interfaces, while PPWR assessments can address packaging portfolios. Sector-specific datasets and primary-data collection templates can improve footprint accuracy across crops, livestock and processing. The result is a measurable framework linking farm and supplier data with product performance, climate targets, water resilience and regulatory readiness.

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