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Sustainable Food Products for a Sustainable Future
AGT Foods is a global leader in plant-based foods and a champion of sustainable agriculture. We believe we are part of the solution to creating a healthier, more sustainable world through the food products we produce. Our mission is to lower carbon intensity in the global food industry, make healthier foods more widely available to our growing world population, and conduct our business with high ethical standards and transparency.
AGT is working to close the protein deficit in global diets by producing plant-based proteins that need fewer resources to grow.
Our customers trust AGT to provide high-quality and healthy plant-based ingredients and sustainable, planet-friendly packaged foods.
The crops and biomass we produce can provide the base materials not just for food, but for fuel and feed as well. AGT has active programs and projects underway to meet this potential.
Financial results are only part of our story. Outcomes that make a material difference for a healthier population and a sustainable planet are equally important in how we measure success. Our commitment to ESG helps our customers who are concerned with their own ESG disclosures and wish to offer low-carbon products. We offer a sustainable future for the food industry.
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A Plant-Based World
For more than 20 years, AGT has been an active participant in the shift to plant-based protein production and consumption. As global diets trend towards plant-based foods that address both climate change and potential food shortages to come, AGT Foods will maintain its commitment to offering products that are good for the environment, address food security and are produced sustainably.
We offer alternatives to animal proteins, including meat and dairy, that require far fewer resources to grow. On average, beef requires eight pounds of plant protein to produce one poound of meat protein—and releases significant amounts of greenhouse gases in the process. By feeding plant-based proteins directly to people, we can improve global food security, reduce environmental damage from intensive livestock production, and improve animal welfare at the same time.
Our production approach is to use 100% of a plant with zero waste. We prioritize innovations like meat and dairy alternatives made from plant-based proteins, using biodegradable materials like starch and fibre to make fossil fuel alternatives, using vegetable oilseeds to produce renewable foods, and reducing fossil fuel inputs in food production without sacrificing crop yield.
In the next 40 years, the world needs to produce the equivalent of all the food produced in the last 10,000 years to keep our growing planet fed. Plant-based proteins will be vital to achieving that goal, not just in the near term but in the centuries to come.
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Sustainable Agriculture in Canada and Around the World
AGT Foods was founded in 2001 as a value-added lentil processor, buying lentils produced locally by growers located near our first facility in Regina, Saskatchewan. Since then, the company has expanded to more than 45 facilities on five continents and a full portfolio of food products—but our focus on locally-produced, sustainably-grown crops has never changed.
We champion the three crop rotation, planting cereals, oilseeds and pulses in a three-year cycle. Pulses naturally produce their own fertilizer through nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that live inside their root systems, improving the fertility of the soil for other cereals and oilseeds in future growing seasons. One study found that adoption of pulses alone likely reduced the carbon footprint of Canadian agriculture by over 1 million tonnes of CO2e per year (approximately 2% of Canadian Agriculture emissions).
Pulses use far less non-renewable energy than other crops. Without the need for fertilizer, pulses use approximately 70% of the non-renewable energy typically used in Western Canadian cropping systems that is attributable to fertilizers.
Pulses are by far the most water-efficient major source of protein produced today. It takes approximately 43 gallons of water to produce one pound of pulses—and 1,857 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. A shift to plant-based proteins like pulses will have dramatic positive effects on water usage in agriculture.
Feeding a World in Need

In a world where nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute, the work of all of us is more important than ever before.

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Armed conflicts, environmental disasters and human rights violations around the world have resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis on our planet, with the U.N. Refugee Agency estimating more than 110 million people today who have been displaced from their homes as refugees, internally displaced peoples or asylum seekers. At no point in history have this many people been displaced at one time—and all of them need to be fed every day. It is our duty as global citizens to do all that we can to help.

AGT wanted to use our resources and our logistical advantage to do all that we could to help. In 2016, we partnered with the U.N. World Food Programme and International Red Cross-Red Crescent to create a program using AGT’s food production facilities in Türkiye. The program uses AGT’s superior logistics and supply chain management power to produce complete food parcels for these organizations that can be easily distributed to people in need.

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Each of these parcels has all the staples of your kitchen: pulses, pasta, rice, oil, flour, vegetables, everything a family needs all packed together, using as many AGT products as possible to save costs.

Since AGT started the program, we’ve put together more than 4.5 million of these boxes, providing over 700 million meals to people in need. Not only that, the program has saved these organizations over 18 million dollars through efficient procurement and distribution and minimizing product losses.

Saskatchewan’s lentils, peas, beans, and durum wheat are going directly to help refugees, while also creating opportunities for farmers and their communities back home.

We are the first stop on the protein highway that’s taking Canadian pulses from producer to the world, contributing to food security and food availability for the future.

Contact AGT Foods to learn more about our commitment to ESG.
References
MacWilliam, S. et al. 2018. A meta-analysis approach to examining the greenhouse gas implications of including dry peas (Pisum sativum L.) and lentils (Lens culinaris M.) in crop rotations in western Canada. Agricultural Systems, 166:101-110.
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