date:Mar 03, 2021
ties in its supply chain that present the greatest risk of contributing to deforestation: cocoa, palm oil, pulp paper for packaging and soy.
As part of its work to prevent deforestation, Hershey uses GPS devices to collect information about farm boundaries and create polygon maps of the farms from which it sources cocoa. Geospatial analysis is commonly leveraged by industrys largest players, including Unilever and Nestl.
These maps are combined with satellite images to identify places where f