Abstract:
This exploratory study was conducted for DLL, an international vendor finance
company. The study aimed at gaining insight into the environmental, social and
economic impact of DLL’s financing in the food and agriculture sector. The insights were
presented in a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) overview, portraying the impact
of fourteen F&A subsectors on nine impact indicators, based on 2018 data. The SIA
showed that DLL’s Net Impact of the F&A portfolio in 2018 was €4.8 billion.
Furthermore, a System Dynamics model was built to simulate sustainability strategies.
Implementing subsector diversification and sustainable asset strategies (along with the
existing strategy of 10% growth per year) could increase DLL’s Net Impact to €10.4
billion in 2025 (as opposed to €7.7 billion if the strategies were not implemented).
