Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

An Australian Conservation Foundation report assessing 20 major food companies says they are ‘vastly underprepared to assess nature issues in their supply chains’. Photograph: Dean Sewell/Oculi Photos/The Guardian

Major food companies in Australia are roundly failing to set adequate targets to reduce their impact on nature and most are not assessing how their supply chains are hitting the environment, according to a first-of-its-kind report from conservationists.

The Future of Food report from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) assessed 20 major food companies across 37 different indicators, from deforestation and pollution to transparency and governance.