3 Juni 2024
Shaping the Sustainable Future of Sugarcane Production in the Philippines
Nestlé and ASR Group, together with partners Proforest and the Sugar Industry Foundation, Inc. (SIFI) jointly organised the Shaping the Sustainable Future of Sugarcane Production in the Philippines forum on 8 May 2024.
The forum gathered stakeholders to interact, share and discuss topical issues relevant to responsible and sustainable sugarcane production in the Philippines.
Attended by over 100 representatives from government agencies, industry federations and associations, sugar buyers, sugar mills, cooperatives, planters, international certification standards and non-governmental organisations from the Philippines sugarcane industry, the forum served as a platform to share the learnings and experiences from the ongoing long-term program by Nestlé and ASR Group, and to define the future.
The programme supports sugarcane producers in northern Negros Occidental to improve their sugarcane farming productivity through good agricultural and management practices while adopting responsible and ethical social best practices.
Preceding the forum, on 7 May 2024, circa forty people participated in a field visit to the Responsible Sourcing from Smallholders (RSS) and Regenerative Agriculture and Climate (RAC) program sites at Escalante City and Cadiz City.
Download the event report here.