Agri-food
Biodiversity and climate across the supply chain
Agri-food companies are highly exposed on biodiversity and land use, across their own sites and their supply chain. NORMAXIS supports CSRD ESRS E4 reporting, supply-chain biodiversity, deforestation-regulation readiness and science-based targets for nature, with measurable data verified independently by IRICE.
Your challenges
Nature at the heart of the value chain.
CSRD ESRS E4
Measurable biodiversity data (BPS) for the sustainability report.
Supply-chain biodiversity
Impacts and dependencies mapped across the value chain (TNFD/LEAP).
Deforestation readiness
Preparing for EU deforestation-regulation evidence requirements.
Independent verification
Third-party verification (IRICE) to make the data defensible.
Context
Nature reporting has moved from voluntary to audited.
For an agri-food group, biodiversity used to be a corporate-responsibility chapter. Under CSRD it is an audited disclosure: if the double materiality assessment finds biodiversity material — and for agri-food it almost always does — then ESRS E4 applies, with quantified metrics and a transition plan.
The difficulty is upstream. Most of an agri-food group's nature impact sits in its supply chain, where the company holds no site and often no direct contractual relationship. Reporting on it requires a method for handling data you do not generate, and an honest account of its uncertainty — which auditors examine more closely than the headline figure.
Method
Materiality first, metrics second.
Double materiality determines what you must report; running it properly is what keeps the exercise proportionate. Groups that skip it end up disclosing everything, which costs more and reads as less credible than a focused disclosure whose scope is justified.
Deforestation-free supply chain requirements add a second, distinct obligation with its own evidence needs. It is not covered by ESRS E4 reporting and should not be merged into it.
Sites
The industrial footprint still has to be measured.
Production sites remain subject to French classified-installation rules, including acoustic limits at property boundaries, and to the DDADUE energy audit where size thresholds are met. Site-level measurement is also what makes group-level disclosure defensible: a figure aggregated from measurements survives scrutiny, one aggregated from estimates does not.
Going further
Related pages.
Agri-food reporting spans sites and supply chain. These are the frameworks involved.
- Double materiality assessment — what determines the scope of the disclosure
- ESRS E4: biodiversity and ecosystems — metrics and transition plan
- Biodiversity transition plan — from disclosure to commitment
- ESRS E1: climate change — the companion disclosure
- DDADUE energy audit — obligation on production sites above threshold
- Acoustics for classified industrial sites — measured at the property boundary
- Ecological expertise — surveys, impact assessment, derogations
Support for an agri-food company
Measurable, independently verified nature data across the value chain.
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