Sustainability Commitments

BRF´s Sustainability Plan is in line with our Essence and aligned with our Sustainability Policy. Through the Plan, we reinforce our commitment to incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) aspects into the Company's future vision.

Our Ambitions reflect awareness of our responsibility. We know that it is always possible to do more to provide a better life for people and the planet, aligned with our Purpose.

BRF's Sustainability Plan

Our Ambitions

Act in synergy with our partners and positively impact communities.

Innovate and obtain sustainable solutions to global challenges

Promote Animal Welfare

Be inclusive, plural and diverse

Preserve the environment and be eco-efficient

In order to increase our transparency and reinforce our Ambitions, we have established global and transversal commitments to ESG aspects, connected with BRF's 2030 Vision, in synergy with the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world *, the size that BRF wants to be.

* UN Global Compact

  • Goal 2

    End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, as well as promote sustainable agriculture.
  • Goal 3

    Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
  • Goal 4

    Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
  • Goal 5

    Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
  • Goal 6

    Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
  • Goal 7

    Ensure reliable, sustainable, modern and affordable access to energy for all.
  • Goal 8

    Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
  • Goal 9

    Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
  • Goal 10

    Reduce inequality within and between countries.
  • Goal 11

    Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
  • Goal 12

    Ensure sustainable consumption and production standards.
  • Goal 13

    Take urgent measures to combat climate change and its impacts.
  • Goal 16

    Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
  • Goal 17

    Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
  • BRF is strictly committed to zero tolerance to animal mistreatment, whether through abuse or neglect.
  • Only use cage-free chicken eggs in the industrial food process globally by 2025.
  • Ensure that 100% of the poultry in the integration system are cage-free globally by 2023.
  • Use environmental enrichment in 100% of the integration of poultry and swine by 2025.
  • Ensure that no antibiotics growth promoter are used in the livestock chain.
  • Certify 100% of the plants in animal welfare by 2025.*
  • *Respecting the religious and/or cultural requirements demanded by our customers
  • Implement 100% of collective gestation pens for sow by 2026.
  • Ensure that 100% of swine raised at BRF are not identified through mutilations by 2021.
  • Ensure that 100% of pigs raised without painful teeth reduction by 2021**.
  • Ensure that 100% of male pigs raised without painful surgical castration by 2022 (excluding specialist products for which there is currently no alternative)***.
  • Ensure that 100% of pigs raised with pain management for tail docking by 2025.
  • ** In extreme cases, (when the welfare of sows is compromised) the practice will be admitted. *** Ensure that when surgical castration is necessary for the production of specific products, it is performed using analgesics and anesthetics.
  • 100% adherence of new product innovation projects to BRF´s sustainability indicator by 2022
  • Ensure 100% traceability of grain in the Amazon and Cerrado by 2025*.
  • * ESG target linked to the Company's variable compensation system (Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date).
  • Invest R$ 400 million* in communities by 2030.
  • *Increase the company's shared value generation by investing its own resources in the communities, especially in social development and economic inclusion agendas.
  • Promote education to reduce food waste to 1.5 million people globally by 2030*.
  • * ESG target linked to the Company's variable compensation system (Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date).
  • Achieve 30% women in leadership of the company by 2025 - We joined the Equity is Priority movement, which is part of the UN Brazil Global Compact Network that reinforces this commitment*.
  • Public sector commitment to combat racism
  • * ESG target linked to the Company's variable compensation system (Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date).
  • Have 100% recyclable, reusable or biodegradable packaging by 2025*
  • * ESG target linked to the Company's variable compensation system (Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date).
  • Implement a carbon neutral product line by 2021.
  • Net Zero by 2040.
  • Increase electricity from clean sources by 50% by 2030
  • Reduce BRF's water consumption indicator by 13% by 2025*.
  • * ESG target linked to the Company's variable compensation system (Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date).

Sustainable Development Goals

As part of our alignment with the UN 2030 agenda, we correlate our commitments with the Sustainable Development Goals listed below.


Goal 2 Goal 3 Goal 4 Goal 5 Goal 6 Goal 7 Goal 8 Goal 9 Goal 10 Goal 11 Goal 12 Goal 13 Goal 16 Goal 17

ESG commitments linked to the Company's variable compensation system*

  • Achieve 30% of women in top leadership by 2025.
  • Ensure 100% traceability of grain acquired from the Amazon and cerrado by 2025.
  • Promote education to reduce food waste to 1.5 million people globbaly by 2030.
  • Reduces BRF's water consumption indicator by 13% by 2025.
  • Have 100% recyclable, reusable or biodegradable packaging by 2025.

* Includes bonus-eligible and executives in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement in effect on the payment date.

Check BRF’s Sustainability Commitments below

Check the progress of commitments in 2021