The Dcoop agri-food groupmade up of 200 cooperatives and 75,000 families of farmers and breeders, ha committed to a sustainable production model in an initiative that concerns the calculation of the carbon footprint, waste management and the promotion of the participation of young people and women.
In the Dcoop 2030 initiative, from strategy to tacticswhich was released this Thursday, the company includes measures such as calculating the carbon footprint according to the ISO 14064 standard, which involves “accounting for emissions from the tree to the finished product” in crops such as oil, olives, wine or nuts .
The standard ensures that the calculated data reflects the real footprint and allows you to design a decarbonisation plan with realistic deadlines and objectives.
These go through the gradual replacement of the use of fossil fuels from autonomous sources of renewable energy (biofuels and solar roofs) and optimization of the use of resources for the manufacture of its products: water, energy, raw materials and auxiliaries, he explained in a statement.
rational fertilization
In parallel, the Dcoop field technical team, composed of 35 professionals, advises 100,000 hectares of crops on practices such as rational fertilization, soil management for maximum use of water resources or management of pruning residues and other residues that are revalued in the form of by-products or biofuel.
In addition to reducing emissions, this technical advice has also implemented a biodiversity plan to preserve the conservation of species that inhabit the crop environment.
Influence on employment
In addition to the environmental aspect, the strategy addresses the problem influence on the creation of work stable and quality both direct and indirect.
With a workforce exceeding 900 jobs in 19 centres distributed in almost all the Andalusian provinces and Castilla La Mancha, and more than 1,500 people employed by the cooperatives integrated into the group, Dcoop has “significant influence” on aspects such as women’s leadership or generational turnover in the sector, she argued.
Among the measures included in his initiative is a program for the training and promoting the participation of young people and women in management bodies of cooperatives, which he describes as “major challenges” for the sector.
On the other hand, how “dynamizer” of life in rural areas, develops a program of collaborations with cultural, educational, sporting, associative and charitable proposals.
the food group Dcoop had a turnover of 1,021.16 million euros last year12.5 percent more than in 2020, the year marked by the covid-19 pandemic.
