Our Farm Forward programme
Farm Forward is our agriculture programme with three big aims: supporting resilient farmers, raising animal welfare standards and making environmental improvements.
Since 2012 we’ve partnered with local suppliers and experts to make scalable environmental improvements in our supply chain. In recent years, we have evolved our Farm Forward programme to invest in the farming industry through research, education and training. Our continued commitment to the programme will help us deliver our goal of supporting resilient livelihoods and sustainable outcomes for over 23,000 Irish and British Farmers.
As part of the programme McDonald’s works in partnership with its suppliers across four key areas:
- We inspire, to encourage new and diverse talent in the industry, providing access to career opportunities in food and farming
- We innovate, investing in the latest research and technology to support farm sustainability and animal welfare.
- We illustrate, working with farmers and suppliers to share best practice and implement innovations within our supply chain
- And we influence, using our scale to encourage industry progress and to support the future resilience of the Irish and British farming industry.
We work closely with farmers across our supply chain to make sure Farm Forward is always relevant and useful to them.