Building Sustainable Value Chains in Agriculture and Food

Impact management and implementation

We integrate impact data into governance, risk management, and day-to-day decisions. We help you steer procurement, sourcing, product design, and investments in agriculture based on quantified social and environmental value. This gives finance and sustainability teams a shared foundation for decision-making, rather than parallel workstreams. 

This is achieved through impact cases which are targeted analyses of specific projects or supply chain interventions that show the full value created and destroyed. Helping you monetise impacts across workers, farmers, communities, and the environment, and are used to construct business cases for changing sourcing models, paying higher prices to suppliers, or investing in farmer support programmes. 

Impact measurement and reporting

Measurement is only useful if it informs direction. We support organisations in defining an impact strategy for their agri-food activities, aligning impact goals with business objectives. We help organisations identify which impacts are most material, set targets, and embed impact considerations into corporate and value chain strategy over time. 

Using tools such as the True Price Scan, we measure the social and environmental impacts of agri-food value chains in monetary terms. True pricing quantifies the external social and environmental costs embedded in food products achieved through impact materiality analyses, value chain mapping and collecting data. 

Our work includes: 

• Annual reporting 

• Living income assessment & True Price 

• Portfolio and sector reporting 

• Financial reporting, e.g. at fund level  

Impact journey and strategy

Assigning monetary value to social and environmental impact, our projects focus on bridging the gap between sustainability and finance departments, enabling holistic decision-making and building future-proof business models. We cover the full impact journey, from first measurement through to strategy, implementation, and reporting.

Nature vision and action plan

We translate impact insights into structured action plans that show how agri-food organisations can move toward more sustainable and regenerative practices while maintaining business viability. 

This includes developing a vision for supply chains through biodiversity footprinting tools and scenario analysis, and connecting it to climate and food system pathways. 

True Profit Alliance and impact-based indicators

Impact Institute contributes to the True Price and True Profits by developing methods, publications, and indicators in partnership with foundations and research institutes. Through these collaborations, we help define impact-based indicators for health, environment, and social conditions in agri-food systems, developing sector-wide alliances.