Nature's Pride: Building supply chain resilience through water, climate and nature action

Water is one of the most powerful entry points to address climate resilience, biodiversity loss and long-term business continuity. This belief guided the work we recently completed together with Nature’s Pride and AdAstra Sustainability across key agricultural sourcing regions in Morocco, Peru and Mexico.

Nature’s Pride already had a strong sustainability foundation, with environmental resilience deeply embedded into its sourcing strategy and business model. Building on previous water, nature and climate impat and risk assessments, we aimed to further integrate water, biodiversity and climate considerations into strategic decision-making and long-term sourcing resilience.

Together with AdAstra Sustainability, we supported Nature’s Pride in identifying and prioritizing nature-related dependencies, impacts and risks across key crops and sourcing landscapes. The objective was not only to better understand environmental pressures, but also to translate these insights into concrete action pathways adapted to local realities. Our work combined geospatial analysis, water stewardship expertise and stakeholder engagement to help identify priority intervention areas and strengthen resilience across the value chain.

From data to strategic decision-making

The project focused on regions where climate variability, water stress and ecosystem degradation increasingly affect agricultural production and sourcing resilience.

Together, we:

• Assessed climate, water and biodiversity-related risks across sourcing landscapes

• Identified and selected environmental and operational hotspots

• Explored opportunities for collective action and local interventions in these hotspots

• Developed strategic insights to support long-term sourcing and sustainability strategies

• Translated complex environmental data into practical and actionable recommendations

  
  

One of the project’s key outcomes was the development of strategic insights and decision-support information enabling sourcing managers to make more informed and forward-looking sourcing decisions in a rapidly changing environmental context.

Combining complementary expertise

This collaboration combined complementary expertise across water, biodiversity, climate and agricultural systems. At LeafTurtle, we brought strategic and operational expertise on water stewardship, biodiversity, stakeholder engagement and sustainability transformation, while partnering with AdAstra Sustainability’s advanced geospatial and quantitative sustainability capabilities related to climate, land use and sourcing landscapes.

The goal was to move beyond assessment alone: toward practical, locally grounded action that can help strengthen resilience across agricultural value chains. A key part of our role was helping bridge global sustainability frameworks with practical implementation opportunities on the ground, ensuring that recommendations remained both scientifically robust and locally relevant.

As Guido Rutten, Nature’s Pride’s Sustainability Business Manager, shared:

“LeafTurtle integrated smoothly into our ways of working, bringing flexibility, strategic perspective across sourcing regions, and strong expertise on water and nature.” Guido Rutten, Sustainable Business Manager at Nature's Pride

As climate and nature-related risks continue to reshape agricultural supply chains, resilient sourcing strategies increasingly depend on understanding local environmental realities and working collaboratively across landscapes. This project demonstrated the importance of connecting science, strategy and local engagement to move from risk awareness toward meaningful, long-term action, helping build agricultural systems that are more resilient, regenerative and future-proof.