Danish Agro

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company has key sustainability objectives covering topics within the Food and Agriculture Benchmark’s three dimensions of environment, nutrition and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While responsibility for the company’s sustainable development strategy lies with the company’s corporate social responsibility board, Danish Agro has an opportunity to strengthen accountability by assigning this responsibility to its highest governance body and disclosing further information on its decision-making processes and oversight responsibilities, as well as linking sustainability objectives and targets to roles and remuneration

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
While the company has set a scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduction target, it has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate progress against this target.

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystem
While the company discloses that it is working towards achieving sustainable procurement of soy, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets for achieving deforestation and conversion-free supply chains for its relevant high-risk commodities.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that improve soil health and increase agrobiodiversity.

Food safety
Danish Agro demonstrates that all agribusiness companies that produce and work with feed are good manufacturing practice (GMP+) certified. However, the company has an opportunity to improve its performance by disclosing the proportion of suppliers certified to widely recognised industry-specific certification programmes.

Availability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment or activities to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods nor to address food security.

Workforce nutrition
The company does not disclose sufficient evidence of having any workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain.

Forced labour
While the company commits to prohibiting forced labour in its own operations, it has an opportunity to disclose a requirement for its suppliers to adhere to the same standards and prohibit the retainment of workers’ personal documents and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement.

Living wage
The company does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage or requires its suppliers to do the same. Neither has it set targets to do so in the future.

Danish Agro publicly commits to supporting and respecting human rights. However, the company does not disclose the policies that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting ILO core labour rights. The company demonstrates a lack of disclosure on how to identify and address its most salient human rights issues. To conclude, no public information was found on accessible grievance mechanisms.

Although the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers, it does not disclose quantitative information on the topics, and it does not expect its supply chain partners to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. In relation to gender equality, Danish Agro discloses time-bound targets but it does not provide a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment nor has female supervisory board members. To conclude, no evidence of policies or commitments related to decent work topics as living wage, workforce diversity, and collective bargaining were found in public domain.

Danish Agro publicly commits to protecting personal data and has a privacy statement on the use of personal data. In addition, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. However, there is room for the company to improve its disclosure on the steps to take to identify and address these issues, purchasing criteria, code of conduct and code of conduct for suppliers. To conclude, the company fails to provide publicly policies or commitments in relation to key ethical business topics as tax and political engagement.