Bunge is also part of Field to Market, a consortium of industry, farm groups, academics and environmental NGOs that is developing systems to measure the environmental "fieldprint" of production agriculture in the United States and promoting better farming practices.
We also continue to improve the environmental footprint of our own operations. Our "1-1-5" sustainability targets include reducing greenhouse gas emissions per ton of output by 1 percent, reducing our water use per ton of output by 1 percent and reducing the total amount of material we send to landfills by 5 percent. These goals, which we aim to achieve by the end of 2010 (baseline year 2008), are statistically small, but represent a good first step. We plan to increase the breadth and depth of our environmental reporting over time, while promoting sustainable, profitable practices for ourselves and the industry.