Our commitments

Our Commitments

By supporting farmers through the agricultural transition and helping bring high-quality food to the market, we are building an agile, resilient model that is constantly improving, with the aim of creating value for all our stakeholders.

As farmers, customers and colleagues of a cooperative group and its businesses, we are committed day in, day out, to making sustainability a pillar of our development.

For farmers, we develop high-potential channels based on approaches to farming that are sustainable in both environmental and economic terms. We encourage the agronomic and combinatorial solutions that are best adapted to our territories and our environment, support farms in all their diversity, and seek out the best markets for our members’ production. Working with them, we are advancing towards practices that make a positive contribution to the preservation of resources, ensure grain produced is safe and hygienic, support biodiversity and soil fertility and make decision-making tools an integral part of technical itineraries. Together, we are progressing towards regenerative agriculture.

The agricultural and food transition is a vital pillar of our group’s strategy. The CultivUp Régénératif programme is a major part of it, bringing together agronomic innovation, support for farmers and new offerings tailored to our customers. It is complemented by numerous initiatives led by our subsidiaries, in particular on our manufacturing sites, where saving resources is a priority. We have designed our approach to be practical, consistent and focused on the long-term: sustainable development remains a historic value of our cooperative

Pierre Toussaint, Director Agronomy, Transitions, Innovation

CultivUp Régénératif: our Sustainable Development programme

Axereal Group’s trajectory is underpinned by the Axereal sustainable development programme, CultivUp Régénératif.

CultivUp Régénératif is a farm-wide programme to support farmers as they develop their practices, reduce their carbon footprints and secure their channels. The approach includes not only agricultural production standards, but also a range of associated mechanisms (R&D, tools, certifications, promotional material, etc.).

Co-building with farmers and processor customers is a tenet of the approach, and so far more than a million tonnes of crops have been collected.

With 1,600 farmers fully committed, and 500 of them involved in a low-carbon programme with enhanced agronomic monitoring, CultivUp Régénératif has earned its place as one of the market’s robust programmes, with concrete, measured results.

CultivUp Régénératif’s pioneering approach is based on four pillars: agronomic expertise, scientific proof, financial performance and the cooperative model. This equips it to meet market requirements and build sustainable and competitive channels.

Intact: making in-roads into plant protein in the Centre-Val de Loire region

By taking a stake in Intact, Axereal has set in motion the creation of a plant protein production channel, primarily to supply the food industry. Intact is a French start-up which has devised an all-new, low-carbon, dry extraction process for pulses.

This venture takes the cooperative into a new market which will extend all the way from the crop in the field through to the value-added product, using a planet-friendly approach perfectly in line with our regenerative agriculture model.

The pea protein crop that will kick off the venture has an agronomic interest as it is able to capture nitrogen from the air and transfer it to the soil to fertilise it naturally. This limits the need for fertilisers and reduces CO2 emissions. Since the 2023 harvest, “Intact ambassador” farmers have been contributing to improving knowledge and practices relating to this under-utilised crop and identifying the practices that will optimise yields. The first Intact factory is being built in Centre-Val de Loire, in France.

It will be completed in late 2025 and, once fully up and running, will process 30,000 tonnes of peas per year.

Low-carbon agriculture

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