SAI Platform unveils regenerative agriculture framework backed by global food companies

SAI Platform has launched a regenerative agriculture programme backed by more than 40 global food and agriculture companies, introducing a common framework and independent verification system to standardise how businesses implement and measure regenerative agriculture across global supply chains.

The Regenerating Together Programme (RTP), unveiled during SAI Platform’s annual member event in Saskatoon, Canada, and London Climate Action Week, provides practical guidance for crop, beef and dairy production. Supporters include Nestlé, Louis Dreyfus Company, McCain Foods and Diageo. More than 40 companies have signed a declaration of intent to help scale regenerative agriculture.

A key feature of the programme is a new verification and benchmarking system that enables independent assessment of regenerative agriculture activities. The approach is intended to improve consistency and transparency while giving businesses a common way to measure environmental outcomes and demonstrate the value farmers create through regenerative practices.

Regenerative agriculture shows great potential to strengthen supply chain resilience against climate change while helping improve farmers’ livelihoods. To accelerate adoption, we need practical and credible frameworks that can be consistently applied across the value chain.”

Pascal Chapot, VP Head of Agriculture at Nestlé

From principles to practice

The organisation developed the programme over four years with input from farmers, agronomists, NGOs, academia and industry. It piloted the framework across 23 production systems in 25 countries before launch, with farmers helping shape the guidance to ensure it can be applied across different farming systems and regions.

The programme responds to growing pressure on the food sector to address climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, water stress and declining farm resilience. SAI Platform has also aligned the initiative with wider industry efforts through collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Regen10 and EIT Food, while the Earthworm Foundation and The Nature Conservancy will support farmer engagement and on-the-ground implementation.

Industry leaders back regenerative transition

Nestlé, one of the companies backing the programme, aims to source 50 percent of its key ingredients from farmers adopting regenerative agriculture practices by 2030 as part of its wider commitment to regenerative food systems.

Commenting on the launch, Pascal Chapot, VP Head of Agriculture at Nestlé, said: “Regenerative agriculture shows great potential to strengthen supply chain resilience against climate change while helping improve farmers’ livelihoods. To accelerate adoption, we need practical and credible frameworks that can be consistently applied across the value chain. SAI Platform’s Regenerating Together Programme is a significant step forward, helping to simplify implementation, build trust and support meaningful impact at scale.”

Dionys Forster, Director General, SAI Platform, said the priority is now turning years of industry collaboration into large-scale implementation.

“The level of collaboration behind the Regenerating Together Programme reflects a growing recognition that meaningful progress will only come through shared approaches and collective action,” he said. 

“The focus now is harnessing this momentum, scaling the implementation of regenerative agriculture, and moving the transition forward. This will help to build more sustainable, resilient farming systems and protect the long-term future of global food supply chains.”