PepsiCo – Adjoa Kittoe – 2025
Summary
Adjoa Kittoe analyzed oil, packaging, and shelf-life vulnerabilities to help inform PepsiCo’s snack resilience strategy in India.
Goals
As a 2025 EDF Climate Corps Fellow, Adjoa Kittoe worked with PepsiCo’s Global Sustainability Office to address increasing climate risks in India. Rising temperatures, water stress, and shifting consumer expectations are creating challenges with respect to food security and operations. Adjoa’s project aimed to evaluate vulnerabilities in key product categories and identify potential resilience strategies that could strengthen PepsiCo’s ability to deliver against growth ambitions in climate-sensitive markets, where quality and value are intrinsic to consumer trust and market expansion.
Solutions
Adjoa approached the challenges through research, stakeholder interviews, and cross-functional analysis. She engaged leaders across risk management, R&D, agriculture, finance, and packaging to build a broad view of climate stressors and market conditions. Her work centered on three areas: oil sourcing and stability, packaging resilience, and shelf-life implications for core snack categories. She reviewed regional data, explored risks to ingredient performance and packaging durability, and considered how these factors influence product consistency. Adjoa also gathered perspectives on consumer preferences and market expectations, along with the considerations tied to packaging innovations. Pulling these threads together, she developed a framework that linked climate-related challenges with product strategy and innovation pathways.
Potential Impact
Adjoa’s work brought together perspectives on oil stability, packaging performance, and consumer trends. Engaging with stakeholders across multiple functions and regions helped surface insights that might otherwise have remained siloed. The project offered a set of findings to help guide future conversations and investment, supporting PepsiCo in connecting climate risk awareness with product and market-related decisions.
