Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 1 Operating Responsible Supply Chains

2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

Delivering responsibly in the global food system Cargill is committed to operating responsibly across the agriculture, food, industrial and ﬁnancial markets we serve as we pursue our goal of being the global leader in nourishing people. Our commitment to corporate responsibility has four pillars: conducting business with integrity, operating responsible supply chains, working to feed the world and enriching our communities.

On the cover: Cargill works to strengthen cocoa - growing communities in Africa, Asia and South America, including increased access to education for the children of cocoa farmers in Ghana.

Conducting Operating Business Responsible with Integrity Supply Chains

Enriching Working to Our Feed the Communities World Delivering responsibly in the global food system All of us expect a lot from our global food system, as we should. We need it to provide safe, nutritious and affordable food for everyone, and we want confidence that food is grown, processed and distributed responsibly.

It’s not surprising, then, that questions are being raised about the system’s ability to feed a growing global population, the health effects of today’s diets, the technologies used to grow and process food, and implications for human rights, animal welfare and the environment.

The global food system is made up of an incredibly complex web of consumers, farmers, governments, food processors, food service and retail companies, and the transportation, trade and market infrastructure that helps store, move and price food on its way from farm to table. Diversity is also the system’s greatest strength, providing tremendous resilience and the ingenuity to discover the best solutions as we move toward a world that is not only more populous but more prosperous. Cargill is working with our partners in all of these areas to make the system better.

We are privileged to contribute every day to the vital task of nourishing people. On behalf of our employees around the world, we are proud to share in this report some of the ways we are delivering responsibly in the global food system.

Sincerely,

Gregory R. Page David W. MacLennan Executive Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer

Aug. 20, 2014

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 1 Operating responsible supply chains

We believe the supply chains that support the global food system must respect people and human rights; produce safe and wholesome food; treat animals humanely; promote responsible agricultural practices; and reduce environmental impact, including protecting high- conservation value land and conserving scarce resources.

Corporate responsibility in action

We promote the best, most We are committed to We employ innovative We treat our employees with responsible agricultural safeguarding the whole approaches to conserve dignity and respect; provide practices, including someness and integrity resources, use renewable safe, secure and healthy work working closely with of the food we produce raw materials and environments; and strive to farmers to increase yields and sell. reduce impacts to help protect human rights across sustainably and treat preserve and protect the our supply chains. animals humanely. environment.

Boosting agricultural productivity Collaborating to meet sustainable and conservation sourcing requirements 100+ Around the world, Cargill works with In Brazil, our work with TNC has helped In Germany, 12 of our farmers to increase yields while reducing farmers grow soy more sustainably since sites earned ISO50001 energy management environmental impact. In Canada, Cargill 2004. We have helped map 11 million systems certification helps farmers grow more canola per acre; hectares of private Brazilian land in Mato – the first of Cargill’s we have increased research and develop Grosso and Pará using satellite-based locations to do so – ment spending by 45 percent since 2007 to monitoring that enables precise evalua demonstrating clear processes for improv boost yields and disease resistance in our tion of producers’ compliance with the ® ing energy efficiency VICTORY hybrid canola, allowing farmers Brazilian Forest Code, helping prevent to reduce associated to increase production levels by 12 per deforestation. Now that approach is being greenhouse gases, cent. In the United States, our NextField™ used as part of the Brazilian government’s costs and environmental precision agriculture system uses satel rural environmental registry. In Argentina impacts. These sites join more than 100 lite images and soil sampling to collect and Paraguay, we help farmers adopt and Cargill locations around data on 100 variables that affect yields verify sustainable production practices. the world with exist for a specific field. Farmers use the data Sustainable soy now accounts for 28 per ing certifications for to apply seed and crop nutrition precisely cent of the crop originated in Paraguay. We environmental and safety management systems. where needed to optimize performance, are working in northeastern China with The producing higher yields with less waste and Coca-Cola Company, the World Wildlife environmental impact. By 2020, Cargill will Fund, Songyuan municipal government and double the amount of NextField acreage smallholder farmers to improve corn pro to more than 1 million total acres. In 2014, duction, reduce waste, conserve water and we expanded our partnership with The optimize fertilizer use. Average yields on Nature Conservancy (TNC), including $1.4 20 demonstration farms have increased 20 million in support for its global agriculture percent compared to non-demonstration programs in Africa, Argentina, Brazil, China, farms. In 2013, more than 15,000 farm Colombia, Mexico and North America. ers participated; combined with favorable weather, yields were 39 percent higher than 2 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Pursuing sustainable soy More than 80 people gathered in Brazil in 2013 as part of a “learning journey” hosted by Cargill to address challenges and identify solutions for improving soy sustainability. Participants from the food industry, governments, nonprofit groups and academia toured soy farms, discussed progress – including the significant reduction in deforestation rates in Brazil – and planned for future action.

In Indonesia, Cargill’s PT Harapan Sawit Lestari palm plantation received RSPO certiﬁcation in 2014, including smallholder farmers. Our PT Hindoli plantation was RSPO 100% certiﬁed in 2009. All Cargill-owned sows at company facilities will be moved from individual pens to group housing by the end of 2015.

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 3 the demonstration farmers’ past four-year stalls to group housing at our U.S. opera average and fertilizer efficiency improved tions in 2015, and all U.S. contract farms 34 percent. Our malt business is address raising Cargill-owned sows will convert to ing barley sustainability in Argentina and group housing by the end of 2017. Europe. In Argentina, we surveyed farmers Elevating cocoa yields and incomes about the long-term viability of malting bar Since launching the Cargill Cocoa Promise ley in the region; we are compiling results in 2012, we have made progress in improv and will use the insights to help improve the ing the livelihoods of farmers, their families crop’s sustainability. In Europe, we com and communities in Brazil, Cameroon, Côte pleted a similar assessment based on input d’Ivoire, Ghana, Indonesia and Vietnam. Promoting biodiversity from co-ops in several countries to better and traceability Global demand for cocoa is growing; to understand challenges and opportunities In Europe, Cargill is ensure a long-term cocoa supply, we have for meeting customer demand for certified increasing the sustain helped train more than 115,000 farmers, ability of our wheat and sustainable barley. corn supply chains by established nearly 2,550 Farmer Field helping farmers improve Reducing deforestation around Schools across six countries and distrib energy efficiency and fer palm plantations uted 25.3 million seedlings to promote farm tilizer use while enhancing Since 2013, Cargill has been working with development. Our activities are raising biodiversity. Using this The Forest Trust mapping our palm oil farmers’ incomes, including $25 million of approach, farmers in France and Hungary have supply chain. In Malaysia, 100 percent of premiums paid to farmer cooperatives for supplied 3,800 metric palm oil produced from Cargill refineries is certified sustainable cocoa, half of which tons of certified sustain traceable to the mill and as of June 2014, is paid directly to their farmer members. able corn that is traceable 80 percent is traceable to the oil palm More than 77,000 farmers and 342,000 back to the individual grower. In Hungary, we plantation and dealers. Now we are moving hectares of cocoa worldwide have been commissioned Szent ahead with mapping supplies from other certified sustainable. In Brazil, for example, István University to locations. As a member of the Roundtable the number of hectares independently study local biodiversity on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Cargill certified has increased to 3,231 hectares and prepare a guide for farmers promoting better is committed to building a traceable and from 1,520 hectares since last year. In Côte agricultural practices, transparent palm oil supply chain commit d’Ivoire, our Co-op Academy is combining such as improving soil ted to no deforestation of high conservation quality and providing pol value (HCV) lands or high carbon stock linator habitats. (HCS) areas; no development on peat; and no exploitation of rights of indigenous Cargill uses more than peoples and local communities. Effective 15 different renewable immediately, we will work to ensure that energy sources at nearly all palm oil and palm products that Cargill produces, trades or processes are in 100 locations, such as our line with these commitments. To reduce Uberlândia facility in Brazil. deforestation and protect biodiversity, we At our poultry processing are using an HCS analysis tool to determine facility in Thailand, we use eligible planting areas as part of new palm recovered vegetable oils developments and have conducted a study and animal fats to displace of our recent development. We are working with key stakeholders to advance scien fossil fuels. tific solutions, including the HCS Forest Study Report best practice frameworks and identification tools. In Indonesia and Malaysia, we support programs to help independent smallholder farmers adopt sustainable agricultural practices and meet RSPO standards.

Protecting animal welfare Cargill ensures the livestock and poultry under our care are raised in a way that sat isfies their physical, nutritional and health requirements and minimizes distress. Cargill will transition from individual sow

4 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report classroom training and on-the-ground their requirements. In China, we have coaching to give cooperative leaders the achieved farm-to-table traceability – from skills to manage and grow their businesses. hatching, raising and processing the poul Forty leaders from 10 cocoa co-ops have try through distribution to customers with already benefitted. We plan to reach 400 a fully integrated poultry supply chain that leaders in the next two years. follows FSCC 22000 protocols. Innovations, such as Cargill’s new model that quantifies Improving cotton farmer livelihoods the number of salmonella cells in raw poul Cargill participates in the Cotton made in try products, also are making food safer. Africa (CmiA) program to promote socially and environmentally sustainable cotton Reducing our environmental impact production. In Zimbabwe, we have helped We continue making progress toward our 24,000 smallholder farmers adopt sus environmental sustainability goals. In fiscal tainable agricultural practices and meet 2014, we improved energy efficiency by 4.6 CmiA requirements through 695 cotton percent (compared to our goal of 5 percent field schools. In Zambia, our 1,600 field improvement by 2015), greenhouse gas schools support 70,000 farmers to pro intensity 5.1 percent (exceeding our goal vide inputs, credit and training to enable of 5 percent improvement by 2015) and them to diversify into maize production, as freshwater efficiency 8 percent (exceed well as achieve the CmiA criteria. We have ing our goal of 5 percent improvement by established more than 800 Cargill Women’s 2015). Renewables accounted for 14.3 Clubs in Zambia and Zimbabwe that are percent of the company’s energy portfolio improving the livelihoods of women farm (surpassing our goal of 12.5 percent by ers by providing access to seeds, fertilizer, 2015). In 2013, our Behavior Based Energy credit and giving them the skills to reinvest Management (BBEM) program expanded to 56x Cargill’s in their farms. These women are signifi include our grain, feed and flour locations. Envirotemp™ cantly increasing yields and productivity We conducted BBEM assessments at 280 FR3™ ﬂuid, (often outperforming local male farmers) locations representing 95 percent of the which is used and have lower loan default rates. company’s energy costs. as a coolant and Increasing food safety Creating a safe workplace insulator in more We collaborate with experts in the food We strive to provide safe, secure and than 600,000 industry, academia and governments healthy workplaces. In fiscal 2014, 70.3 high-voltage around the world to improve food safety. percent of our locations operated with electric In the Netherlands and Canada, we work out a reportable injury, representing 931 transformers on six with regulators to ensure Global Food of our 1,324 locations globally. In 2013 continents, uses Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards align with we achieved our 2015 Reportable Injury renewable soybean government food safety requirements. Frequency Rate (RIFR) goal of 2 and ended oil, biodegrades This opens up the potential for government 2014 with our best ever RIFR of 1.8 per easily, is less regulatory authorities to use accredited 200,000 hours worked. However, we still ﬂammable, longer third-party audits that meet GFSI stan have work to do. In fiscal 2014, we lost lasting, uses fewer dards as a screen to help the agencies six people in workplace incidents (four raw materials and focus their resources on the highest risks. employees and two contractors). These has 56 times less Cargill promotes consistent global food painful losses rein force our commitment carbon emissions safety standards to ensure that people to achieving our goal of zero fatalities. We than mineral oil. everywhere have access to safe food. All introduced Human and Organizational Cargill received the Cargill food production facilities will achieve Performance training, con ducting 25 ses Presidential Green GFSI-recognized Food Safety System sions with leaders across the company; we Chemistry Certification 22000 FSSC( 22000) by 2014 plan to integrate this training into our core Challenge Award and relevant Cargill grain handling and ani health and safety curriculum over the next from the U.S. mal feed facilities will be certified by 2015. two years. We are addressing targeted Environmental We expect our agriculture, food ingredi safety areas, including ergonomics in our Protection Agency ents, animal protein and food packaging meat business and vehicle safety. All of our in 2013 for this suppliers worldwide to meet the same businesses now have deployed the Focus innovation. food safety standards as our own facilities. on LIFE (Life-altering Injury and Fatality Among our food ingredient suppliers, 77 Elimination) program, reinforcing consis percent already are audited against a GFSI- tency in our safety practices globally. benchmarked scheme. We also partner with customers to ensure we are meeting Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 5 Working to feed the world

We believe our global food system can produce enough food to meet the needs of an increasingly populous, more urban and more prosperous world. How? Through the resilience of farmers; the responsible adoption of technology; and the effectiveness of market- based approaches to encourage production and move food efﬁciently.

Corporate responsibility in action

We are committed to helping We help farmers increase We expand access to food, We advocate for policies feed the world’s growing agricultural productivity improve nutrition and that promote trust-based population while at the same and incomes while ensuring pursue partnerships to end open trade, efficient local time protecting the planet – responsible use of natural hunger in collaboration markets, safety nets for supporting Cargill’s vision resources. We develop more with the public, private and producers and consumers, to be the global leader in efficient methods of moving nonprofit sectors around and removal of obstacles to nourishing people. food from areas of surplus to the world. agricultural investment. areas of deficit.

Building capacity to produce more food capacity. In the United States, we invested Cargill’s facility investments improve effi $50 million to modernize our North Dakota ciency and increase agricultural capacity, oilseed facility for more efficient process helping meet the world’s rising demand for ing of canola and sunflower seeds; we food. Our new mill in Korea can produce invested $10.6 million to expand our egg 870,000 metric tons of animal feed per year, processing facility in Michigan; and we are making it our largest feed mill. In India, we building a new, $29 million feed mill in Iowa are building a $100 million wet corn mill that will produce 350,000 tons of hog feed ing plant in the state of Karnataka that will annually. In Vietnam, we completed a $20 process 250,000 metric tons of locally million expansion of our Binh Dinh animal Cargill supports global grown corn annually and a new feed mill feed plant, increasing the plant’s capacity initiatives, such as the in Punjab that will produce 120,000 metric fourfold to support livestock customers. G8 New Alliance on Food tons of feed each year for India’s growing Security and Nutrition, Investing to improve grain storage The Chicago Council on dairy industry. In Russia, our $200 million and shipment Global Affairs Agricultural sunflower crush plant under construction Cargill’s investments in storage, handling Development Initiative, in Volgograd will process 640,000 metric and the World Economic and transportation are reducing food waste tons of sunflower seeds annually for oil Forum’s New Vision for and improving food security around the and protein meal beginning in 2015; we Agriculture, which is help world. Our grain and oilseeds business ing improve food security, also invested $100 million to expand our alone has invested more than $325 mil environmental sustain Efremov wheat processing plant, which lion over the past five years to increase ability and economic will process 500,000 metric tons of wheat opportunity through storage and loading/unloading capacity. each year – nearly doubling its original agriculture. In Canada, we are expanding grain stor age capacity to 30,200 from 10,200 metric tons and nearly doubling rail capacity at our Morris, Manitoba, farm service center

6 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Producing and transporting more food In fiscal 2014, Cargill invested $3.2 billion in assets and facilities that help us more efficiently move food from where it is grown and processed to where it is needed.

Cargill funds a teaching farm in West Java, Indonesia, to improve palm oil sustainability through research and education about plantation management practices and environmentally responsible farming.

Cargill’s Truvía® business and the World Food Programme are ﬁghting hunger in Bolivia. More than 49,700 children have received school meals and 125 fuel-efﬁcient stoves have been built in rural Chuquisaca.

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 7 to more efficiently handle and ship grain. Advancing African agriculture This increased capacity, combined with an Cargill is working to develop a thriving expansion at our Viking facility in Alberta, agricultural sector in Africa to reduce gives Canadian farmers more flexibility to poverty, raise living standards and enable deliver grain throughout the year. In the Africa to feed a growing population. We United States, we expanded seven grain are working with farmers, partners and elevators, increasing storage capacity by governments across Africa to boost agri 400,000 metric tons and truck receiving cultural productivity and improve farming and grain drying capacity; added 12,000 practices while using land and natural metric tons of space at our grain export resources responsibly. We are providing Corn yields in Mexico facility in Louisiana to increase ship load essential training, support and finance, as Cargill supports ing efficiency and capacity; and expanded well as better access to markets to enable Fundación Mexicana para el Desarrollo Rural our Washington facility with new systems farmers to grow themselves from subsis and its Educampo pro for ship loading, barge unloading and rail tence to more commercial production. gram to improve white receiving plus 12,000 metric tons of addi In Mozambique, we are partnering with corn yields and incomes tional shipping bin space. In Romania, Empresa de Comercialização Agrícola Ltd., for smallholder farm ers in Mexico’s Yucatan we have expanded silo intake capacity an AgDevCo-funded social enterprise that region. The program has to reduce waiting time for farmers and provides market access and stimulates trained 200 farmers in opened up additional rail loading tracks. In sustainable agricultural development in 19 communities to help South Africa, we use silo bag storage and remote rural communities. Cargill is provid them increase yields in Zambia, where we are increasing our ing technical advice and resources on grain and acquire business skills to market their crop grain origination this year by 70,000 met handling and storage, and is committed to and provided financing ric tons, we are investigating bulk storage a long-term supply agreement for maize. to 96 farmers to help options for next year’s harvest. In South Under this agreement we will purchase them grow their busi America, we have added two elevators in 10,000 metric tons from 4,000 farmers ness. Productivity has increased 60 percent Argentina, two in Uruguay and eight new during the 2014 harvest. We are support on 660 hectares of or expanded elevators in Brazil; made rail ing the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition farmland. improvements in Argentina and Brazil; and increased loading and unloading capacity in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Improving livestock farming in Asia Cargill experts train dairy Cargill’s animal nutrition business has trained 3.4 million Chinese farmers since farmers in animal feeding 1992 to improve productivity in animal and farm management, nutrition, sanitation, genetics and farm including use of nutrition management. The goal is to train 4 million innovations developed at dairy, hog, poultry and aquaculture farmers our dairy research facility by the end of 2015. In Hebei province, for near Langfang, China. example, we are helping provide training to improve dairy farming practices and increase farmer incomes. In Vietnam, we have trained 1.5 million farmers in animal husbandry best practices to raise pro ductivity and incomes and invested more than $110 million in Vietnam’s livestock and aquaculture industry since 1997. In India, we have trained 20,000 livestock farmers to improve animal health and productivity, farm management and use of technol ogy, helping increase farmer incomes. In Indonesia, we have trained more than 7,600 farmers in livestock best practices in the last two years.

8 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Security and the Grow Africa partnership to chartering only the most energy efficient to accelerate investment and transforma vessels for ocean transport of global com tive change in African agriculture. We also modities, including food, around the world. provide support for the ONE campaign On land, Cargill worked with a bulk trans to increase investments in agriculture portation supplier in Argentina to more than and nutrition, and improve poverty-fight double its fleet of trucks, resulting in more ing programs. efficient delivery of food and reduction of freight costs. Boosting yields in Central America In Central America, we help smallholder Delivering healthier food ingredients farmers increase yields and market Using advanced plant breeding tech access. In Nicaragua, we are working with niques, we adapted our VICTORY® hybrid TechnoServe and the local government to canola grown in Canada to create a more improve the competitiveness of sorghum drought- and disease-resistant variety farming. Launched in 2014, the program that can produce high yields in Australia’s will provide technical assistance, train drier climate. This canola is used to make ing and market access for 400 small and high-oleic canola oils that offer health ben 40 medium and large sorghum farmers efits, including zero grams of trans fat per to improve productivity, bring them into serving and reduced saturated fat content. Cargill’s sorghum supply chain and help The seed modifications were made without them access local financing so farmers using genetic engineering and we cre can obtain inputs and equipment. Our $1.8 ated a segregated supply chain to source million investment in this program, which non-genetically modified canola for the includes development of high-quality local Australian market. In Brazil, we produce hybrid seed, is expected to help increase Lévia™ specialty oils and fats with zero yields by an average of 15 percent and trans fat and reduced saturated fat. These 10 reduce seed costs by 60 percent. We also ingredients provide flavor, softness and countries work with CARE in Nicaragua’s Chinandega texture to foods. In 2014, we expanded our We expanded our region to help 300 farmers improve agri plants in Itumbiara and Mairinque, Brazil to aquaculture busi cultural practices to increase yields by 10 increase overall production capacity by 35 ness by acquiring a percent on 190 hectares of sorghum and percent to meet rising customer demand shrimp feed manu yellow maize. The program will raise farmer for healthier oils. facturer in Thailand, incomes 15 percent and improve food building on our Alleviating hunger and security for 2,600 families. In Honduras, we existing shrimp improving nutrition work with CARE to provide technical assis feed production Over the last five years, Cargill has con tance, establish rural banks and minimize capabilities in tributed more than $83 million worldwide risk for 149 corn farmers, resulting in yield Mexico, Nicaragua, to reduce hunger and improve nutrition. In increases of more than 300 percent and Honduras, 2013, Cargill signed the Global Nutrition for higher incomes. Guatemala, Growth Compact and pledged to improve Peru, Venezuela, Connecting supply with demand nutrition and health within our workforce. India, Malaysia Cargill helps move food efficiently from Through our membership in the Scaling Up and Vietnam. areas of surplus to areas of need. Our Nutrition Business Network, we are join Aquaculture is minority share in a deep sea port termi ing with governments, industry partners one of the fastest nal on the Black Sea in southwest Russia and civil society to tackle issues of nutri growing food-pro provides Russian farmers with reliable tion and hunger. Together with the World ducing sectors, access to global markets for their crops, Food Programme and our work with food and according including the Middle East and Africa. The banks, we expand access to food around to the United Novorossiysk KSK facility has the capac the world. Nations’ Food ity to handle 3.5 million metric tons of grain and Agriculture annually. In Brazil, we are expanding our Organization now Santarém terminal to increase export accounts for nearly ing capacity to 5 million metric tons from 50 percent of the 2 million metric tons of grain annually world’s food ﬁsh. to accommodate increases in corn and soybean production. Cargill is committed

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 9 Enriching our communities

We help build vibrant, stable communities by supporting long-term solutions to reduce hunger, improve education and protect the environ ment. Through our ﬁnancial support, the expertise of our businesses, efforts of our employees and collaboration with partners, we are making positive, measurable improvements where we live and work.

Corporate responsibility in action

We support solutions to end We contribute to programs We support projects that We participate in our com hunger, increase access to that improve access to edu promote sustainable agri munities. Our employees health education in develop cation for underprivileged cultural practices, provide contribute thousands of ing and emerging countries, children and provide training environmental conservation volunteer hours and make and improve youth nutrition and schooling in science, education, and protect and charitable donations that and wellness. technology, engineering improve accessibility have a signiﬁcant local and math. to water. impact.

Combining nutrition and education Supporting African food processors In Canada, Cargill supports Farm-to-Fork, Since 2011, more than 150 Cargill employ which teaches schoolchildren about how ees have shared their expertise with African food is grown, the importance of nutrition food processors through nonprofit Partners and how to make healthy food choices, and in Food Solutions (PFS). In 2014, Cargill educates marginalized youth about sustain committed an additional $500,000 to this able urban agriculture, reaching more than program, bringing our total investment to 700 students. In the United States, Cargill is $1 million since 2011 to support PFS efforts investing $1.5 million to support early child in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and hood nutrition in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Zambia. In partnership with TechnoServe We renewed our global Minnesota, including sponsoring a school and USAID, PFS volunteers from Cargill partnership with CARE breakfast program that will provide 4 million and other companies have helped more that is helping farmers and their families in developing meals for low-income children by the end than 525 businesses, providing markets for countries increase their of the 2014-2015 school year, and providing more than 550,000 smallholder farmers and productivity and incomes, $200,000 to the Wichita Children’s Home reaching more than 3.3 million people. improve food security in in Kansas, which serves meals to 2,000 at- their communities and Engaging employees in risk and homeless children annually. Cargill better educate their chil combatting hunger supports a nutrition education program dren. The new three-year, Nearly 11,500 Cargill employees from 103 $7.5-million partnership at the Brother Alfredo Care Center in São locations in Asia, Africa, North America, builds on the success of Paulo, Brazil, that teaches students and South America and Europe volunteered the Rural Development staff about safe food handling and healthy Initiative begun in 2008 34,480 hours in honor of World Food Day. eating habits using the center’s vegetable that has benefited more They collected 173,023 pounds of food for than 100,000 people garden. In Costa Rica, we donated $30,000 local food banks and served or packaged in India, Ghana, Côte through a public-private partnership pro 50,065 meals for people in need. During d’Ivoire, Egypt, Honduras, gram to improve food security for children Guatemala, Nicaragua the three-month period around World Food at seven schools. and Brazil. Day, employees helped raise $1.2 million in

10 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Educating children in cocoa-growing communities Cargill has helped improve access to basic education for 34,000 children in cocoa-growing communities. In Ghana, we have distributed 100,000 school books and trained 850 teachers, reaching 6,000 children.

Through 362 Cargill Cares Councils in 49 countries, our employees make a significant impact in our communities. Cargill employees and retirees volunteered more than 250,000 hours worldwide in fiscal 2014. 59 countries Cargill’s charitable giving exceeded $59 million across 59 countries in fiscal 2014.

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 11 donations. To improve nutrition, employees Enhancement Program (K-LEAP) program. in Indonesia partnered with local women’s Through K-LEAP, we have helped improve organizations and the government’s food livelihoods for more than 9,000 households security agency to promote vegetable across 225 villages. Results include a 50 farming, proper hygiene and childhood percent rise in agricultural productivity and nutrition. In Australia, employees distrib a $134 increase in household income per uted meals to the homeless and in Zambia, year for 500 farmers, and increased market employees served meals to more than access for more than 4,000 dairy farmers 1,000 people and arranged lessons for in 185 villages, leading to a 182 percent children on nutrition and healthy sanitation. increase in income, decreased livestock Water in Mozambique To make more food available, employees mortality due to access to veterinary ser Cargill employees in in Hereford, U.K. held a food drive col vices and vaccinations in 225 villages, and Switzerland raised $72,000 to build four lecting 2,250 pounds of food, and in the a 10 to 20 percent increase in productivity water systems at United States, employees in Beardstown, for 1,500 farmers through access to better agriculture schools in Illinois, collected 5,000 pounds of food quality seeds. Our project with CARE to Mozambique, benefit and donated $3,150 benefiting four food fight malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh, India ing 1,350 people. The boarding schools, banks. Employees in India raised food is expected to benefit 1 million people by which include metal and and funds to feed the vulnerable popula 2016 by reducing under-nutrition among carpentry workshops, tion, volunteered at feeding programs children; reducing severe acute malnu vegetable gardens and and served meals and distributed food trition in pregnant women and nursing teachers’ homes, had insufficient access packets, and reached out to more than mothers; and expanding the effectiveness, to clean water. We 10,000 school children to raise awareness reach and visibility of under-nutrition elimi partnered with Action about low cost nutritious food options nation efforts. Cargill is investing $800,000 de Soutien à l’Enfance and their benefits. In Malaysia, employ through the CARE Pathways program in Démunie to install ees assembled 20,000 meal packets and India to benefit 10,000 female farmers and systems that pump and store groundwater that is in Honduras, employees packaged more their 40,000 family members in the state distributed for drink than 5,000 pounds of food at a local food of Odisha, helping improve productivity, ing, washing, cooking bank. In Argentina, employee teams from equity and empowerment. and watering gardens. 25 communities helped harvest 320,000 Cargill has also provided more than $600,000 in kilos of corn donated to the Argentine Food funding to help improve Bank Network. the schools’ agricultural training curriculum and Partnering to improve education, After Supertyphoon Yolanda infrastructure. nutrition and incomes (Haiyan) devastated the Cargill’s partnership with CARE is helping Philippines, Cargill donated improve access to education for children in $500,000 to support relief cocoa growing communities, including the and rehabilitation efforts, construction and rehabilitation of school including a two-year $250,000 buildings and water wells, and providing investment to help affected school supplies and books benefiting more coconut farming communi than 30,000 children in Ghana and Côte ties recover by distributing d’Ivoire. In Côte d’Ivoire, we helped launch 140,000 fast- growing seed a $2.4 million partnership with CARE, lings and cultivating crops on Conseil du Café-Cacao and 14 cocoa 600 hectares of farmland. co-operatives to improve education and healthcare for children and families in 14 communities. The partnership will con struct 11 new schools to serve more than 1,500 children and three clinics to provide healthcare for 25,000 people. In India, more than 73,500 students have benefited from CARE’s rural schools project as part of the Kutch Livelihood and Education

12 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Investing in STEM education kilograms of rubbish and planting 34,450 Cargill supports education and careers in new trees. In Brazil, employees from 20 science, technology, engineering and math locations led 45 projects to raise awareness (STEM). In India, we invested $100,000 and help reduce water consumption in the to open a Science Center in Gurgaon in workplace, at home and in their communi January 2014 to help children from mar ties. In South Africa, employees planted ginalized communities understand science vegetables that were donated to children’s and math concepts; more than 5,000 charities. In Argentina, employees planted students from more than 35 schools have 3,000 trees to reforest a burned area and benefited from STEM activities. In the U.K., volunteered 220 hours to upgrade equip we are working with Bright Crop to promote ment at a local waste separation plant. In careers in agriculture and STEM. In the Indonesia, employees in East Java planted United States, Cargill is investing $200,000 3,000 bamboo trees over 10 hectares as to help expand the STEM program at the part of a forest rehabilitation program. Sciencenter Discovery Museum in New Improving health in our communities York. The Sciencenter serves more than In Indonesia, Cargill provides healthcare 100,000 children each year from its New for our employees and their families at York location and 1.5 million people at clinics on our palm plantations. We provide 300 other science centers nationwide dental care to children at local schools, through its traveling exhibitions and and conduct household safety training STEM programs. sessions, medical check-ups and family Developing future leaders planning sessions for the community. In We are continuing to grow the Cargill November 2013, Cargill was recognized 5.7m Global Scholars program, which supports by the Indonesian health ministry for our people high-performing college students from commitment to raising local healthcare Cargill provides Brazil, China, Russia, India and the United standards, including maternal and ongoing support States. By the end of 2014, 120 students reproductive health and nutrition at our PT for food banks will have received leadership development Hindoli plantation in South Sumatra. In the around the training, funding for educational expenses Philippines, we facilitated access to the world, including and mentoring support from Cargill leaders. state health insurance program, helping the European We plan to grow the program to more than register 2,500 smallholder coconut farmers Federation of Food 250 participants over the next four years. and their 12,500 family members. Banks (FEBA). Our scholarship program in the Philippines We support FEBA’s Providing clean water in Zambia supports 180 students throughout their food safety, and Zimbabwe high school education and top-performing hygiene and other In rural Africa, women spend about 25 per students through college. In Indonesia, we training programs cent of their time collecting water, typically provided $500,000 to establish a distance and provide walking long distances and transporting learning program to raise standards and product donations water in buckets. Cargill employees and our improve education in rural areas by allowing and ﬁnancial cotton business in Zambia have provided teachers and school principals to pursue contributions to several Cargill Women’s Clubs with 660 Bachelor of Education degrees, renovated FEBA afﬁliates, Hippo Water Rollers used to collect, store 26 school libraries and donated nearly who deliver food to and transport water more efficiently. Water 14,000 books. 5.7 million people is poured into durable rolling barrels that in 21 countries. Taking action to protect are pushed along using handles, with the Our employees the environment weight of the water borne on the ground. also volunteer to Cargill supports programs that promote Using a Hippo Roller, they can transport 90 help local FEBA sustainable agriculture practices and liters of water at one time, more than four food banks. environmental conservation. Annually, times the amount carried by bucket, so the from April through June, Cargill employ women have more time for other activities. ees participate in Earth Day and World Employees have also raised funds for the Environment Day projects. In Romania, delivery of more than 50 Hippo Rollers for more than 80 volunteers planted 7,500 communities in Zimbabwe. trees, transforming land exposed to ero sion into a future locust tree forest. More than 1,000 Cargill employees across China contributed 4,600 hours collecting 500

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 13 Conducting business with integrity

Adhering to high standards of business conduct has been important to Cargill since our founding in 1865. We are governed by a Code of Conduct, which is grounded by the seven Guiding Principles below.

We obey the law communicating honestly, respecting Obeying the law is the foundation on which information entrusted to us, and standing $1b our reputation and Guiding Principles are behind our commitments. built. As a global organization privileged to Cargill provides minor We treat people with dignity and respect ity- and women-owned do business all over the world, we have the We achieve our goals through our people. businesses an equal responsibility to comply with all of the laws We provide a safe workplace and value the opportunity to become that apply to our businesses. Cargill suppliers, helping unique contributions of our global team, build a supplier base that We conduct our business with integrity enabling those who support Cargill’s goals reflects the diversity of We take pride in conducting our business to achieve their own individual potential. our businesses, custom with integrity. We compete vigorously, but ers and the world in We protect Cargill’s information, assets which we operate. We do so fairly and ethically. We do not offer or and interests are halfway to our goal of accept bribes or inappropriate gifts, and we We count on one another to act as stew joining the Billion Dollar comply with the laws and regulations that Roundtable by 2020 – a ards of the organization. To preserve the support fair competition and integrity in group of companies value of Cargill, we protect the informa the marketplace. that purchase at least tion and assets entrusted to us and avoid $1 billion annually from minority- and women- We keep accurate and honest records situations that may let personal interests owned businesses. Accurate and honest records are critical influence our business judgment. to making sound business decisions and We are committed to being a maintaining the integrity of our financial responsible global citizen reporting. Our business information, in The breadth of our operations means that whatever form, must reflect the true nature Cargill touches almost every aspect of of our transactions. society. With our global reach comes the We honor our business obligations responsibility to understand and manage Our business relationships are grounded our impact. We maintain strict environmen in mutual trust, and have been throughout tal and food safety standards within our Cargill’s history. We build and maintain operations and share our global knowledge the trust and confidence of our cus and experience to help meet economic and tomers and other business partners by social challenges.

14 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report Employee engagement We regularly ask our employees how they feel about their work. In 2013, more than 100,000 employees around the world shared their voices in our global employee engagement survey. For more than 10 years, Cargill has been measuring employee engagement. Our most recent engagement score of 77 percent is a statistically significant increase over our two previous surveys.

Our 143,000 employees in 67 countries collaborate with customers across the food, agriculture, ﬁnancial and industrial markets we serve around the world. 90+ More than 90 Cargill locations have worked more than a million hours without a reportable injury.

Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report | 15 Our commitment to corporate responsibility When Cargill began in 1865, our business was founded on the belief that “our word is our bond.” Today, as a diversified global company still grounded in a culture of trust and respect, this remains the standard by which we do business. We operate with integrity and accountability. We are committed to feeding the world in a responsible way; reducing our environmental impact; and improving the communities where we live and work. We are passionate about our goal to be the global leader in nourishing people and operating responsibly across the agricultural, food, industrial and financial markets we serve. Our world faces complex challenges. The breadth and scope of our business gives us an unparalleled view – and with that broad perspective comes responsibility. We are committed to nourishing the world’s growing population while protecting the planet. We continue to find new ways to help farmers produce more food more sustainably and to develop more efficient methods of moving food from times and places of surplus to times and places of deficit. We know that with the talents and conviction of our employees, we can help meet the challenge of ensuring all people have access to safe, nutritious and affordable food. We focus on meeting today’s needs without impairing the world’s capacity to serve future generations. Cargill’s interest extends beyond our own operations to the suppliers, partners and other stakeholders in our supply chains. A responsible supply chain respects people and human rights; produces safe and wholesome food; treats animals humanely; promotes the best, most responsible agricultural practices; and reduces environmental impact, including protecting the land and conserving scarce resources. Achieving this will require collaboration with all stakeholders across developed and emerging markets. We strive to demonstrate measurable progress against the supply chain issues that we can control and those we can influence. We know our ability to grow as a company depends on the way we treat people, how we enrich our communities and how well we serve our customers. Through the efforts of our employees, Cargill will grow profitably and grow responsibly to meet the needs of a diverse, expanding and interconnected world.

16 | Cargill 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report CECP, a coalition of 150 Chief Executive Ofﬁcers, awarded Cargill the 2014 Chairman’s Excellence Award for corporate responsibility in recognition of our Rural Development Initiative in partnership with CARE.

McDonald’s, one of Cargill’s largest global customers, honored Cargill with seven “Best of Sustainable Supply” awards in 2014 for leadership in improving food security and in operating responsible supply chains.

Latino magazine named Cargill to its 2014 “LATINO 100” list of the 100 U.S.-based companies that provide the most opportunities for Latino employees and communities.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Zambia awarded Cargill the “Excellence in Corporate Citizenship Award 2013” in recognition of Cargill’s commitment to the communities in which we operate.

Junior Achievement USA recognized volunteerism by Cargill employees with a U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2014. Learn more about Cargill’s work in the global food system. Visit www.cargill.com to access our 2014 Annual Report.

Cargill provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world. Together with farmers, customers, governments and communities, we help people thrive by applying our insights and nearly 150 years of experience. We have 143,000 employees in 67 countries who are committed to feeding the world in a responsible way, reducing environmental impact and improving the communities where we live and work. For more information, visit Cargill.com.