Force for Good Strategy

Our supply chains are broad, covering many products and regions. That means we need to prioritise the ingredients and raw materials where our action can best accelerate progress for climate, nature, and people. Our focus is on areas of action in the selected supply chains of coffee, cocoa, fruit and vegetables, dairy, and beef. At the same time, we intend to continue strengthening standards in other key supply chains, such as fish and seafood.

With this focused approach, we apply the same discipline to our sustainability initiatives as we do to cost. We direct our resources to where we identify the greatest potential to create positive impact.

With our Force for Good strategy, we have introduced a new set of ambitious targets across climate, nature and people, recognising that progress in each depends on progress across all. We plan to use interconnected actions that allow us to simultaneously address diverse sustainability challenges from multiple angles, such as enhancing our sourcing practices, investing in projects on farms and in priority supply sheds, collaborating with others, and advocating for policy changes.

Climate change disrupts global food systems – affecting agriculture, supply chains, and the communities that depend on them. Reducing emissions and building resilience is essential if we want food systems across our key supply chains to remain viable in the long term.

In 2024, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validated the ALDI SÜD Group’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets. Addressing climate change requires action beyond our own operations. We work with our suppliers, NGOs, industry partners, and policymakers to help decarbonise agriculture, improve efficiency, and scale resilient food production.

We aim to advance our climate approach through sourcing, collaboration and advocacy to support emissions reductions across our supply chains.

Biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and water scarcity threaten the future of food production. At ALDI, we believe protecting and regenerating natural resources are integral to creating a more resilient food system across our key selected supply chains.

We work with our suppliers and partners to regenerate natural resources through targeted landscape and watershed initiatives. We invest in nature-based solutions, such as funding regenerative agriculture programmes, and help drive collective action on water stewardship in high-risk areas. By focusing on areas where risk is highest and shared, we can better help strengthen resilience and promote more sustainable land and water management practices.

To regenerate natural resources, we intend to focus on responsible sourcing, initiatives and partnerships tailored to land restoration and water replenishment, and advocacy engagement with policymakers.

Farmers, food producers and workers face social challenges including poverty, poor working conditions, and health inequalities that can undermine supply chain stability and broader social wellbeing.

We invest in improving livelihoods of people across our selected food producing supply chains. We do this by supporting initiatives for enhanced living incomes, co financing regenerative agriculture practices that help mitigate farmers’ financial risks and supporting projects which enhance access to safe drinking water.

At the same time, we are committed to communities through the products we sell and the opportunities to offer healthier choices to our customers. We are reformulating products to reduce salt, sugar, and saturated fat, and supporting the transition to healthier diets by expanding our range of plant based options.

Through our human rights and environmental due diligence approach, and our efforts to source responsibly, collaborate and advocate, we intend to support improved livelihoods in our supply chains.

We aim to achieve progress on healthier choices through product reformulation, an attractive and increased offer of plant-based products, nutrition labelling, collaboration and advocacy.