Asda Natural Resource Stewardship Strategy
**By progressing sourcing standards for ingredients and commodities, reducing the impact of our operations and supporting improved land management with our farmers we aim is to ensure we have a more resilient value chain, that drives a positive impact on key natural resources**
The natural environment plays a critical role in sustaining life and supporting the production of our food system. Our Natural Resource Stewardship Strategy aims to drive a positive impact across water, biodiversity and soil. The natural environment is complex and interconnected, and making progress in these areas helps us also deliver our broader carbon and climate change programme.
Our Nature Strategy
**Our Nature Strategy is focused on improving the management of water, biodiversity and soil**
**Landscape and local land management**
While individual landowners can take action to improve their management of the environment, our ecosystems and water catchments are connected at much larger scales. This is why we take a local and landscape level approach to managing nature, recognising the actions being delivered by individual farmers or suppliers alongside the priorities needed across our broader landscapes.
By addressing the interconnectedness of water, biodiversity and soil health at these different scales we can help protect and restore natural processes and improve the resilience of our food systems.
**Our aims include:**
**50% of fresh food to be sourced from areas with sustainable water management by 2030**
**Reduce water consumption in our operations year on year by 2030**
**Fresh food sourced from farms with Biodiversity Improvement plans in place (100% produce, 50% beef, dairy, lamb by 2030**
