Mondelez International announced its ambition to expand the Harmony programme, the company’s sustainable wheat sourcing initiative, to cover all of its biscuit brands in the EU by 2022, up from 60 % of its biscuit production in EU last year.

Today, the Harmony programme involves 1,700 farmers, 13 millers and 21 cooperatives across six markets (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Spain) producing 177,000 t of wheat for the company’s biscuit brands in 2017. This represents about three quarters of Mondelez International’s production of biscuits in Western Europe or 60 % across EU.

Through the programme expansion, annual production of wheat under sustainable conditions would increase to over 280,000 t by 2022. This should cover the volume of wheat needed to produce the company’s entire European biscuit portfolio.