I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily. Food production accounts for about

30% of all greenhouse gas emissions. To cut those down, the way food is grown, sourced,

and packaged has to change. To paint a picture of how that conversion is happening, in the

farming and food space, Steve Pressley, the head of Nestle North America, sits down with Ted's

head of partnerships and impact, Lindsay Levin, after the break.

Great to be here with you, and you started your career at Nestle in a beverage factory in Suffolk

Virginia, I believe, way back when, and today you run the largest business division of the

world's largest food company. Give us a sense of what that means.

Yeah, I mean, obviously, as you said, Nestle is the world's largest food company. It's also one of

the largest food in beverage companies in North America. We're actually in 95% of the households in

the U.S. with one of our brands, and if you think about our brands, most people know us through our

brands. DeGiorno, Stofers, Hot Pockets, Starbucks at Home, Coffee Mate, or any of our Purine

and Petco products. And so we have a really broad, vast portfolio of products. And as we work across

that, how do we bring that to life? We bring it to life with 30,000 amazing team members around

the country that are spread around 119 facilities in 28 different states that really are focused on

trying to make our business and the contributions to the society much better every single day.

But if you kind of step back at a global level, we actually sell a billion Nestle products every

single day in 188 countries around the world. So massive scale. And to do that, we work directly

with 500,000 farmers around the world directly and indirectly over a million.

So that's a lot of responsibility, right? We think about food, we think about farming, we think

about the responsibility of the agricultural industry, terms of soil, in terms of water,

in terms of emissions. Give us a sense of the challenges that you're now seeking to address as

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