Silver Fern Farms
"We have collaborated with PAN to support delivery against Silver Fern Farms’ commitment to become a nature positive food producer. We selected the Planetary Facts approach because of its international credibility and alignment with best practice, and ability to augment current data collection and reporting activities we have established under NZFAP+ and our Nature Positive Index."
- Cat Rowe, Sustainability Manager
Project overview
We kicked off an exciting collaboration with Silver Fern Farms in FY24 to explore the use of Planetary Accounting as a tool to support their Nature Positive programme.
This included working with SFF to establish science-aligned targets for their farms, and in the first half of FY25 we progressed this to assess the Planetary Facts of SFF Lamb:
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Carcass at Farm Gate
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Meat sold for retail in the UK
APPROACH
The pilot assessments were completed using data provided by Silver Fern Farms (SFF) for a sample set of farms, and across their processing and transport activities. Where data gaps were present (e.g. for annual land-use change and waste generation on-farm) proxy data was taken from alternative farm data sample sets and Ecoinvent Database V10.0.
oUTCOMES
The results of SFF’s Planetary Facts assessments highlight the relative contributions of on-farm activities to the overall product footprint, versus the impacts of processing, packaging, and transportation. Results also highlight environmental hotspots now, and against future scientific benchmarks in 2040 and 2050, showing SFF how far and how fast market and regulatory pressures might build, and enabling them to respond early. These results also align with the core nature-related disclosure (TNFD) metrics, and advance proposed UK Retailer Planetary Boundaries labelling proposals – putting SFF in a strong position to show leadership in communication with their customers.
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Founder/CEO
Kate Meyer
Kate is the creator of Planetary Accounting, and has >15 years leading large scale sustainability projects and in senior leadership roles. Kate is the driving force behind the Planetary Accounting Network, helping people, organisations and governments to operate within the planet's environmental limits.
