Fyffes Launches New Sustainability Strategy with Ambitious Target to Advance Women in Agricultural Leadership
Tropical produce company sets goal of achieving gender parity in senior leadership across its owned operations by 2035.
Fyffes has launched its Sustainability Strategy 2025-2035, setting out a series of long-term commitments across climate, agriculture, packaging, food loss and waste, human rights and community impact, including a target to achieve gender parity in senior leadership and at least 30% female representation in supervisory operational roles by 2035 in its own operations.
The new strategy builds on Fyffes’ existing sustainability programme and introduces additional targets extending to 2035. The company says the updated framework reflects evolving stakeholder expectations, regulatory developments and the importance of integrating sustainability considerations into long-term business planning.
Under the strategy’s “Enriching People’s Lives” pillar, Fyffes will build on its existing gender equality programmes by strengthening pathways for women to progress into supervisory and senior leadership positions across its owned operations.
Caoimhe Buckley, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Fyffes, said:
“Agriculture depends on the skills, experience and contribution of people throughout the value chain, yet women remain underrepresented in many leadership and operational roles across the sector. Our new target reflects our commitment to creating greater opportunities for women to progress into supervisory and leadership positions across our business.
Sustainability is about more than environmental performance. It is also about supporting fair and inclusive workplaces, respecting human rights and contributing positively to the communities connected to our supply chain. This strategy brings those priorities together within a single framework that will guide our actions through to 2035.”
Alongside its gender representation targets, Fyffes also aims to positively impact wellbeing for 50 million people across its supply chain by 2035 through programmes responding to locally identified needs including health and nutrition, climate resilience, education and gender equality as well as other areas that strengthen community livelihoods. The company has also committed to maintaining zero fatalities and reducing workplace injury rates by 20% by 2030 across all owned operations.
The strategy will ensure that 100% of Fyffes-owned farms and high-risk suppliers are covered by independent human rights and environmental impact assessments by 2028, supported by time-bound action plans where risks are identified.
In addition to its social commitments, the strategy sets out several environmental targets.
Fyffes has submitted targets to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its operations and supply chain in line with a 1.5°C pathway to the Science Based Targets initiative[1].
Other targets include:
- Expanding regenerative agriculture practices across 13,000 hectares (owned and growers) of banana and pineapple production by 2035.
- Reducing plastic packaging by 40% and overall single-use packaging materials by 10% by 2030.
- Reducing food loss across the banana and pineapple supply chain (owned and growers) by 70,000 tonnes by 2035 while continuing to maximise the repurposing of unavoidable surplus fruit.
The company states that the new strategy builds on progress made under its previous sustainability framework, through which it has reported achievements including providing more than 36 million healthy meals to vulnerable communities, educating more than three million people on healthy eating and food waste reduction, reducing its Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity by 46% from 2020 to 2025 and achieving water management plan coverage across all Fyffes farms.
Buckley added:
“The challenges facing global food systems require long-term thinking and collaboration across supply chains. Through this strategy, we are establishing clear, measurable targets across the areas that are most material to our business and stakeholders. We will continue to monitor and report on our progress as we work towards these commitments.”
The Sustainability Strategy 2025-2035 supports Fyffes’ purpose of Shaping Wellbeing for the World and is designed to translate ambition into measurable action. Fyffes will publish progress through its sustainability reporting and continue to work with employees, suppliers, customers and communities to address challenges that no business can solve alone.
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Notes to Editors
The targets outlined in Fyffes’ Sustainability Strategy represent forward-looking commitments and are subject to ongoing implementation, monitoring and reporting. Progress against the targets will be disclosed through the company’s sustainability reporting processes.
Key targets within the Fyffes Sustainability Strategy 2025-2035 include:
- Gender parity in senior leadership (±10%) by 2035. At least 30% female representation in supervisory roles by 2035.
- Improvement in wellbeing for 50 million people across the supply chain by 2035.
- Human rights and environmental impact assessments covering 100% of Fyffes-owned farms and high-risk suppliers by 2028.
- Maintain zero fatalities and reduce TRIR and LTIR by 20% by 2030.
- Expansion of regenerative agriculture practices across 13,000 hectares by 2035.
- Reduce our absolute GHG emissions across our operations and supply chain by 20351:
- Reduce non-FLAG Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 42%
- • Reduce non-FLAG Scope 3 emissions by 30%
- • Reduce FLAG Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions by 30.3%
- Reduction of plastic packaging by 40% and overall single-use packaging by 10% by 2030.
- Reduction of food loss by 70,000 tonnes across the banana and pineapple supply chain by 2035
[1] The targets have been submitted to SBTi and remain subject to validation.
