HUMAN RIGHTS The UN principles about social responsibility and sustainability The business should 1. Support and respect the protection of internationally-proclaimed human rights, and 2. Make sure that it is not complicit in human rights abuses. ’Good Corporate Governance’ is a universal term for a number of actions and initiatives that form part of good management for large companies. Danish Agro’s Supervisory Board works proactively to identify and upgrade its existing competences. Besides this, Danish Agro group has worked with goals and policies regarding the gender representation in management and the reporting of this. Danish Agro is in a male dominated field of business and is a relatively male dominated company. In real life, it is challenging to attract women to seats in our board and management team. In the current board of directors in Danish Agro 9 members have been elected on regional meetings and all of these are male. Danish Agro supports diversity in our board, including the representation of gender. Diversity needs to be prioritized but should not prioritized at the expense of competencies. In 2013, the board of director’s in Danish Agro has therefore decided that it will be an ambitious and realistic goal to increase the representation of women to 15 % ( 1 woman) no later than 2018. In regards of the field of business and the current starting point, the board of directors see the goal as ambitious and realistic. Our goal means that we need to attract a higher percentage of women to our board than the representation of female farmers in Denmark. Activities and results The group’s support and respect for international conventions on human rights are reflected internally, including by our HR policies, and externally by the collaborative trading and activities we engage in internationally. Danish Agro group subsidiary DAVA Foods, the market leader in the Nordic Region within fresh eggs, is the active co-sponsor of a school project in Tanzania. The project is designed to give underprivileged children the chance to attend preschool, where they are provided with a daily meal, have a place to go and prepare them for school. The project is based in a very poor area with significant social problems, and will help children get into the positive and healthy routine of attending school, whilst physical and mental problems can be detected at an early stage. Danish Agro’s Supervisory Board worked on applying the recommendations of the Committee for Good Corporate Governance, dated 6 May 2013, in 2015. 4
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