JBS Couros is currently capable of tracing 8,000 suppliers in Brazil. The leather division of the meat manufacturing giant has reached the number on January 30th thanks to the JBS Green Offices program, which allows for the socio-environmental regularization of agricultural companies making up the value chain (47% are small enterprises). The goal of JBS Couros now plans on closing 2024 with 12,000 regularized suppliers, in terms of social and environmental responsibilities tied to international regulations (such as the European one) to counter deforestation.
This is how JBS Couros traces 8,000 suppliers
To support suppliers in respecting these standards, JBS Couros opened 19 green stores in 2019 near its meat-transformation sites in the country, focusing on the Amazon and Cerrado areas. “The program is an extension of the Transparent Livestock Farming Platform – explains a company press release -. It offers free technical assistance to livestock suppliers to become aligned with social-environmental standards for the supply chain and the regularization of operations on their properties”. JBS Couros’s 19 offices conducted 9,000 audits in 2023 (22,000 since the start of the project) and 4,000 regularizations.
Goal 100%
JBS Couros expects to reach 12,000 in 2024. To reach 100% traceability (78,000 suppliers), the company has set the deadline for 2025. The suppliers incapable of being aligned with the standards, will be taken out of the suppliers’ list. To provide further assistance and support, the entity has created the Green Offices 2.0 project: “We will offer tools to allow producers to access documents and techniques inherent to regenerative production and integrated agroforestry systems”, concluded the sustainability director of JBS Brasil, Liegi Correia.
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