agribusinessreview.comAUGUST 20258OPINIONIN MY By Maria Hoertrich, Head Of Quality, Monde NissinEven though it has been around for a while, sustainability is still a fairly new discipline compared to business management or food safety. Only in 2015, the United Nations established the 17 Development Sustainability development goals. Gone are the days when sustainability was a synonym for environmental impact reduction ­ in today's financial metrics, worker safety or consumer health and food security are pillars of comprehensive sustainability programs. But how do you go about implementing or continuously improving a sustainability program in a small to medium-sized business without a full-time, experienced sustainability manager?I found myself in exactly the same position. When I started at Select Harvests, one of Australia's largest almond producers, I was tasked with developing a sustainability program, building on the excellent but less strategic and more ad hoc work that had been done previously. I had no technical Maria HoertrichHOW TO DEVELOP AN EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM WITHOUT A FULL-TIME SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER OR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
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