Key Takeaways
- Al Dahra has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, the sixth consecutive year of public sustainability disclosure, prepared with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
- Romania now operates around 76% of cultivated land under reduced tillage, one of the largest deployments in Europe, while Egypt's no-till rollout is showing measurable soil health and water efficiency gains.
- Al Dahra completed a comprehensive greenhouse gas inventory across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in 2025, establishing it as a new baseline year, and began transitioning to the Sandy by Trinity AgTech carbon reporting platform.
- The company completed an ESG risk mapping exercise across its supply chain, selected Sedex as its supplier ESG assessment platform, and expanded biofuel-powered shipping routes more than fourfold.
- Al Dahra's first Global Employee Engagement Survey recorded an 80% participation rate and a 76% engagement score, six points above the industry benchmark, with zero workplace fatalities recorded in 2025.
Al Dahra Publishes Sixth Annual Sustainability Report
Al Dahra, the Abu Dhabi-headquartered multinational agribusiness, has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, marking six consecutive years of public sustainability disclosure. The report outlines how the company is protecting long-term value, securing reliable supply, and strengthening resilience across its operations and value chain, describing 2025 as a year of moving from building sustainability foundations to executing them at scale.
Prepared with reference to the GRI Standards, the report covers progress across a company that aims to become the world's largest irrigated, digitally enabled farming platform by 2030. During the year, Al Dahra operationalised its Sustainability Committee, strengthened accountability frameworks, and advanced its transition to more sophisticated digital platforms to improve data quality, transparency, and usability.
Regenerative Farming Practices Expand Across Regions
Regenerative and reduced-disturbance farming continued to scale in 2025, with Romania operating roughly 76% of its cultivated land under reduced tillage — one of the largest such deployments in Europe. In Egypt, the rollout of no-till farming has begun showing measurable improvements in soil health and water efficiency under arid growing conditions. Across its operating regions, irrigation modernisation, precision scheduling, and soil health interventions increased water productivity without reducing yields. To support continued progress, Al Dahra appointed a full-time ecologist in 2025 to guide nature-positive practices and embed biodiversity considerations across operations.
Emissions Baseline and Digital Carbon Tracking
Al Dahra completed a comprehensive greenhouse gas inventory spanning Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, including both FLAG and non-FLAG categories, establishing 2025 as a new baseline year for the company. It has also begun shifting its emissions focus toward carbon intensity per crop and per hectare, a metric better aligned with agricultural realities and more targeted interventions. To support this shift, the company initiated its transition to Sandy by Trinity AgTech, a carbon and natural capital reporting platform built specifically for agriculture.
Supply Chain ESG Mapping and Logistics Improvements
Beyond its direct operations, Al Dahra completed a comprehensive ESG risk mapping exercise across its supply chain and selected Sedex as its supplier ESG assessment platform, establishing a scalable framework for responsible sourcing. On the logistics side, biofuel-powered shipping routes expanded more than fourfold, while a shift to inland barge transport in Romania reduced truck movements by approximately 200 per week.
Workforce Engagement and Safety Performance
The company introduced a new Inclusion & Engagement framework in 2025, supported by its first Global Employee Engagement Survey, which achieved an 80% participation rate and a 76% engagement score — six percentage points above the industry benchmark. Within the survey, 82% of employees said they were proud to work for Al Dahra, and 81% said they would recommend it as a place to work, with results now informing targeted action on leadership development, recognition, wellbeing, and systems improvement.
Health and safety governance was strengthened through the rollout of digital incident reporting systems. The company recorded zero fatalities in 2025, reduced Lost Time Injuries from 48 to 44, and increased training compliance from 38% to 65%, with total training hours rising from 41,000 to 59,000.
Community Investment and 2030 Targets
In 2025, Al Dahra invested more than AED 2 million across the communities in which it operates, supporting education, community development, health, culture, and social wellbeing, under a new ambition to positively impact 100,000 lives by 2030. Looking ahead, the company says its focus will be on scaling what has worked, strengthening accountability, and continuing to embed sustainability into how it operates, invests, and grows — part of a broader target to operate a global, irrigated, sustainable, digitally driven farming platform spanning 500,000 hectares by 2030.
“At Al Dahra, sustainability is central to long-term value creation in a world facing growing pressure on food systems, climate, and natural resources. In 2025, we progressed from building foundations to delivering at scale – advancing resilient farming systems, strengthening governance and data capabilities, and driving measurable action to reduce risk and emissions across our operations and value chain. We are encouraged by our progress, and we remain focused on the work ahead,” said Arnoud van den Berg, Group CEO at Al Dahra.
The full 2025 Sustainability Report is available on the website.
