Nestlé announces new partnership with World Central Kitchen

By collaborating with World Central Kitchen (WCK), Nestlé will help feed hungry people in communities that have been stricken by extreme weather events related to the climate crisis.

Nestlé will support WCK in an initial one-year agreement and with a CHF one million donation to its Climate Disaster Fund.

Nina Kruchten, Head of Corporate Donations at Nestlé said, "We chose to partner with World Central Kitchen due to its close alignment with our business and our donations activities related to hunger relief and food access.”

The non-profit has three areas of focus:

• Providing meals to hungry people impacted by climate disasters. WCK brings food, water and other resources to affected areas.
• Building resilience in frontline communities. WCK supports communities to feed themselves and helps farmers adapt to a rapidly changing climate. It invests in local food producers and teaches foodservice professionals and culinary students the WCK model. That way they are ready to respond in their own communities when needed.
• Changing the systems that leave people hungry and thirsty. WCK works with local and state governments to take successful models and scale them up.

These efforts mirror much of the work Nestlé has undertaken as part of its Net Zero Roadmap. The company is not only addressing its own operations and product portfolio to reduce its carbon footprint.

It is also supporting farmers and suppliers to implement regenerative agriculture practices and is scaling up its reforestation program, given that nearly two-thirds of its emissions come from agriculture.

On top of helping people impacted by natural disasters, WCK also responds to prolonged humanitarian crises such as the one in Ukraine. Nestlé has also supported this effort, and the WCK team has already provided over 27 million meals across eight countries to those affected by the war in Ukraine.

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