Active development of our green areas enables a sustainable co-existence with our agricultural production system.

We manage +19,100 hectares destined for fauna and flora conservation, distributed between savannah and Atlantic Forest biomes. We protect springs, rivers, and lakes environments, which play an essential role in biodiversity and water resources.

Since 2018, we have been proactively participating in wild animals watching projects and bee chain development co-existing with our orchards, thus, promoting a more sustainable ecosystem.

For 2030, our commitment is to advance structured projects development for 100% of hectares destined for environmental protection, reinforcing our positive impact. Our Biodiversity journey will be sustained by bees and honey higher production; fauna and flora characterization and monitoring; expansion of native seedlings nursery, orchard plantation improvement.

Water is an essential commodity for our planet, since it nourishes life. Water contribution is paramount to generating a positive impact through our business.

Farm irrigation concentrate +80% of Citrosuco’s water consumption, due to climate conditions in the regions in which we operate. An efficient dripping system directs water and nutrients directly to the plants’ roots.

Technological investments of our four industries located in Brazil and the United States provide water treatment and reuse, improving the re-circulation of +900,000 m3 water resources over the last three crops.

For 2030, we will ensure higher rational water resources catchment in agricultural operations through reservoirs and management actions surrounding water basins.

Our mills will accelerate an efficient use of water through monitoring and technology, assuring less consumption of resources in our product development. Both actions will positively impact water availability to our stakeholders

Our legacy involves taking part in the social and economic development of communities in which we operate through positive impact interventions.

In 16 territories of influence, we developed social investment projects, earmarking +R$2 million/ year to combat local vulnerabilities along with our stakeholders, including educational programs, children and adolescents rights protection, public health, and improvement of youngsters’ citizenship actions. Key projects: PVE – Partnership to Value Education (Parceria para Valorização da Educação); Initiation Project (Projeto Pescar) – youth professional initiation; Citizenship Project (Programa Cidadania)– promote Political Education; Public Management Support (Apoio à Gestão Pública or AGP) – public health management qualification.

For 2030, our concern is to lower the greatest social vulnerability seen in 100% of prioritized territories of influence. We will build integrated interventions through social and impact investments, in synergy with public policies, local businesses, and each territory’s ecosystem player.

People give life to our purpose.

In 2015, we created the Diversity Program (Programa para Todos), which discusses topics and actions about the relevance of Diversity, equality and Inclusion. We significantly advanced PwD inclusion, now we have +400 PwDs included in our workplace, and 16% already evidence career evolution.

We desire to provide higher representativeness to women and black people in leadership positions;

16% of women and/or black people already perform supervision positions and above. For 2030, we are committed to improving opportunities and access to leadership positions performed by women and afro descendants, reaching, at least, 30% of representativeness. This program will be fomented by leaders, awareness, and engagement campaigns.

Citrosuco already operates 100% of 25 owned farms certified by SAI Platform, gold level, acting according to the most solid international agricultural practices.

In 2016, we created the Trilhar Program (Programa Trilhar), to reinforce our relationship with fruit suppliers and disseminate the best sustainability practices, thus, increasing the percentage of internationally audited and certified fruits in our production.

A relevant step of such a journey was our commitment assumed in 2020 along with the Sustainable Juice Covenant, a global pact that aims at ensuring 100% of a sustainable value chain by 2030. These actions reinforce Citrosuco’s leading role in promote the best social and environmental practices in our farms and with our partners.

We will continue advancing our 2030 commitment of reaching a 100% sustainable chain through development, articulation, and partnerships to enable sustainability certifications in our partner producers.