How Yum! Brands Is Making Its Supply Chain More Sustainable

The KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill parent company is investing in partnerships with dairy, beef and poultry suppliers to reduce carbon emissions and develop more resilient agricultural practices.

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 14, 2023 / The effects of climate change can have a major impact on the global food system. That's why Yum! Brands aims to be part of the solution and is working with suppliers to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

"We rely on healthy agriculture systems to support sustainable crop yields and livestock productivity," said Yum! Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Hixson. "If temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, then there may be less supply of items like beef, chicken and cheese worldwide. It's all connected. Improving supply chain resilience helps mitigate these risks, benefiting our consumers, suppliers and franchisees."

In 2021, Yum! Brands announced science-based targets (SBTs) and established a clearly-defined path to reduce its GHG emissions intensity from core proteins, which include beef, chicken and dairy, by 46% by 2030, compared to its 2019 baseline, in line with the Paris Agreement goals.

In order to reach these goals, Yum! is partnering with its protein suppliers, investing in targeted pilots, engaging with sector and industry partners from land use to animal feed, and working across the food industry to ensure transparency and alignment with how agricultural emissions are being tracked and reported.

Tapping into technology to make dairy more sustainable

United States dairy farmers have worked hard to reduce their GHG emissions, so much that the U.S. dairy industry is responsible for less than 2% of the nation's total carbon output.

Their expertise is evident in the Dairy Farmers of America's (DFA) partnership with Pizza Hut U.S. In 2022, Pizza Hut set a goal to source 50% of the dairy used to make its pizza cheese from farmers focused on using sustainable practices by 2025 and met the goal two years early.

Now the brand is focused on helping those dairy farmers become even more sustainable by providing them with a SCiO cup. Farmers place a scoop of cattle feed into the cup to determine levels of dry matter in the feed, delivering precise nutrition to the cows. As a result, the cows eat less feed but consume more nutrients, resulting in less methane released, causing an overall GHG emissions reduction.

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