Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) pillars provide a framework for our sustainability agenda and challenge every employee to contribute to ‘a responsible food chain for future generations’. Our sustainability agenda is driven by the thee pillars of Responsible Sourcing, Responsible Operations and Responsible Solutions.

Responsible Sourcing

For the production of animal feed, Agrifirm purchases agricultural products such as maize, grain and soy and processes co-products from the food industry that are not suitable for human consumption. With our sustainability agenda, we focus on increasing the sustainability of the worldwide procurement of bulk agricultural raw materials and the worldwide procurement of raw materials that are suggested in our dialogue with stakeholders.

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Responsible Operations

The processing to turn the raw materials into animal feed leads to emissions of greenhouse gases and contributes to climate change. The Paris Climate Agreement drives our ambition to have a net climate-neutral production process by 2036. It is our ambition to reduce the CO2 emissions from our direct and indirect energy consumption (scopes 1 and 2, GHG Protocol) in all our locations to net zero. We plan to do this by reducing our absolute emissions, increasing the efficiency of our production processes and making use of energy from renewable sources and by compensating the remaining CO2 emissions.

Responsible Solutions

We have defined six key themes in the food market based on global trends and challenges. We want these themes to determine what products and services we supply to our markets. With the CSR pillar of Responsible Solutions, we want to actively promote responsible products and services that are aligned with our strategy and themes. We aim to ensure that 10-15% of our margin will come from the sale of these responsible solutions in 2024.

Strategy alignment

Our 'Driven by purpose' strategy 2021-2024 is in line with our more stringent CSR policy. Read more about the implementation of our three CSR pillars (p. 45): 

Annual Report 2021

Changes take place step by step. This is why it is important to have clear parameters to monitor and stimulate this change. This is why Agrifirm developed the Fit4Feed protocol:

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Results and reports

Good results despite the challenging conditions: Annual Report 2021.

Our strategy: Driven by purpose

We are better together and strive to achieve a responsible food chain for future generations.

About us

We deliver measurable, relevant and sustainable value at farm, field and industry.