Deloitte Climate & Sustainability Competency Lab 2025
The lecture will highlight new developments in food systems policies, including EU agri-food policies, and how these policies incentivize transformation towards sustainable outcomes. The diversity of approaches creates opportunities as innovative policies can have positive cascading effects within the agri-food sector. At the same time there is need for supply chain actors to work together to avoid possible fragmentation associated with diverse reporting requirements.
It will be held by Dr. Lee Ann Jackson with the contribution of Randy Jagt (Partner at Deloitte Netherlands and the Future of Food leader for Deloitte Global).
Inverview with Lee Ann Jackson
About the speakers
Lee Ann Jackson is the Head of the Agro-food Trade and Markets Division in the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate. She leads the work examining the links between policies and outcomes on food and agricultural markets.She has over 20 years of experience working in the area of trade and agriculture, including 16 years working at the WTO, where she served as the Secretary to the Committee on Agriculture, advising WTO member countries on issues related to agricultural trade policy and multilateral negotiations.
She has served as a consultant for leading international organisations involved in agriculture policy and trade, including the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research.
Randy Jagt is the Future of Food leader for Deloitte Global. In this role, he is responsible for developing the global Future of Food strategy and integrating businesses and go-to-market solutions across the Deloitte network.
As a Senior Strategy Partner in Deloitte Netherlands’ Consumer Industry, Randy works with companies across the food value chain. He is deeply passionate about realizing strategic and purpose driven transformations at scale with clients and necessary coalitions.
Interview with Lee Ann Jackson
C-TAKEAWAYS: Fast facts for the C-level
- Food systems face a “triple challenge” of producing enough food for a growing world population, providing livelihoods for people working within the food supply chain and contributing to environmental sustainability.
- Most GHG emissions from food come from land use change and agricultural production.
- Sustainable productivity growth and carbon footprint measurement along the supply chain are two key topics at the moment.
- Agriculture is a very policy-heavy sector, and the OECD is working to generate information for policymakers to create policies ensuring the achievement of foodsecurity objectives.
- The landscape of reporting is very complex, with various reporting frameworks, standards and guidelines for carbon footprints.
- There has been a significant increase in firms disclosing their impact (+24% in 2023 vs. 2022).
- It will be essential for both large and smaller food producers to collaborate across the supply chain.
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Inverview with Lee Ann Jackson
