Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Design Leader's Handbook

Case: Fazer

Regenerative farming program to achieve emission reductions and commercial advantage

Client
Fazer
Industry
FMCG
Annual revenue
1-5B€
Number of employees
5000-10000

Summary

Grain Vision is Fazer’s commitment to cultivating the future of sustainable food. At the heart of this vision are the Nordic farmers, whose high-quality grains bring the beloved pantry stables into life.

Together with these farmers and the Impaktly team, Fazer renewed its farming program to both meet ambitious sustainability targets and inspire consumers. The renewed approach also strengthens Fazer’s competitive position by demonstrating the potential for category-level value creation.

The renewed program is built on six key principles, which first pilot farmers start following in the 2025 growing season. These principles focus on optimising fertiliser and pesticide use, increasing insect-pollinated plants on farms, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from use of machinery and soil tilling. 

Key outcomes

  • Vision for regenerative grain production 

  • Six key farming principles 

  • A collaboration model with contract farmers 

  • Program funding model  & quantified commercial potential 

  • Consumer value proposition 

  • Pilot launch with the first farmers

Our approach

Through a stakeholder-centric process, Impaktly combined service design, strategy, and farming expertise to co-create a shared vision for regenerative grain production. Farmers were at the centre of the work: their realities, challenges, and barriers to adoption shaped the principles and the collaboration model. 

The process began by aligning the program vision with Fazer’s sustainability goals and setting the right ambition level to ensure industry leadership. Together with a farming expert, the team defined six principles that follow the farm’s annual cycle, making them intuitive and practical to adopt and effective in driving both environmental and commercial outcomes. 

Two parallel program streams then advanced the work: one focusing on the partnership model and the other on developing the commercial concept. The partnership model was developed to motivate farmers to join and stay engaged while ensuring that the programme makes commercial sense for Fazer. To deliver the commercial value, commercial concept was developed by validating consumer-facing value propositions. 

Key highlights & methods

  • Service design

  • Strategic foresight

  • Business casing

  • Industry benchmarking

  • Impact assessment

  • Quantitative consumer validation 

Joséphine Mickwitz

EVP, Communications & Sustainability at Fazer

Impaktly helped us to deliver clarity and structure fast, giving us both the ambition and the practical framework needed to scale regenerative farming.

Let's talk about how to make this happen!

Curious what this could mean for your team? Get in touch, we'd love to chat.

Mia Folkesson

Managing Partner

mia@impaktly.com