LA PROSPÉRITÉ FERMIÈRE / INGREDIA mobilises its members to reduce its carbon footprint and that of its customers

Prospérité Fermière/Ingredia has been committed since 2012 to the upstream deployment of its CSR approach in its value chain, i.e in the dairy farms. It will notably be achieved by an approach of environmental issues awareness raising for members.

As he wished to reduce its own greenhouse gases emissions, one of our clients requested from ProspéritéFermière/Ingredients that we run a Greenhouse gases emissions diagnosis of our member's farms.

To do this, ProspéritéFermière/Ingredia called upon two partners:

- Paris INAPG (National Agronomic Institute of Paris Grignon) 

- the Breeding Institute who developed the CAP' 2ER tool, enabling the assessment of the carbon footprint (greenhouse gases emission) of the members

This project has two phases:

-1st phase: diagnosis

-2nd phase: action plan to convince the members

 - Diagnosis results are shared during local information meetings which enable to spread the information and help understand the diagnosis tools.

- Training of the Milk Advisors (who have direct contacts with the producers) on Greenhouse Gases emissions (performed by the breeding institute)

In order to reduce its Greenhouse Gases emissions, Prospérité Fermière/Ingredia also launched a project which intends to give value to the agro-industrial byproducts produced in the Ternois area:

- Implementation of an experiment aiming to substitute some of the proteins meals (soya, industrial rapeseed) with fat rapeseed meal in the diet of dairy cows.

- objective: proteinic and dietary autonomy of farms and optimisation of grassy areas (permanent meadows)