Banking for Food

Facts & figures

February 2015

Banking for Food Facts & Figures at a glance

Global food & agri bank Our roots

Food and agri loan portfolio (global): 92.3 billion euro (21% of total group loan portfolio)

Entrepreneurs whom we support• 85% of Dutch farmers• 40% of Dutch food and agri value chains• 2 million farmers in Africa, Asia and South-

America

Rabobank aims to support and facilitate entrepreneurs in the food and agri value chain in meeting the increasing demand for food, now and in the future. We provide access to finance, knowledge and networks to our clients and their communities. Food and agri was, is and always will be at the heart of the Rabobank strategy.

Access to finance

Rabobank client councils: member councils of 15 local Rabobanks in the Netherlands; 15 regional client councils in Australia/New Zealand

Organizer of Food & Agri Advisory Boards in the US and Asia

Partnerships with international organisations: FAO, NAJK, Nuffield, World-Wildlife Fund

Member of six round tables for sustainable production on beef, coffee, palm oil, soy, sugar cane

Access to networks

- Present in 40 countries, among which The Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and 25+ developing and emerging countries

- Serving value chains for all food & agri products, from farm to fork: farmers, farm input suppliers, processors, traders, food industry, food retail

Timeline: 1898 first Cooperative Farmers’ Banks in The Netherlands; 1974 Rabobank Foundation; 1981 first office opens (New York); start in Australia (1994) and New Zealand (1997)

Representation: 118 farmers in supervisory boards of local Dutch Rabobanks

Rabobank Knowledge programs for entrepreneurs

Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory• 80+ research professionals and analists

across 15 offices globally• 196 reports in 2014

Access to knowledge

Banking for Food access to finance

Food and agri loan portfolio: global 92.3 billion euro (21% of total group loan portfolio)1)

28.4 bn euro to clients of the local banks in

the Netherlands1)

• 85% of Dutch farmers is financed by Rabobank

• 40% of Dutch food & agri value chains is financed by

Rabobank

54.9 bn euro to Wholesale and International

Rural & Retail Banking 1)

• 2 million farmers in Africa, Asia and South-America

get access to finance via the partner banks of Rabo

Development

8.9 bn euro to leasing

1) 2014 annual report Rabobank Group

28.4

8.9

54.9

Banking for Food access to knowledge

Rabobank Knowledge programs for enterpreneurs

• Rabobank Global Farmers Master Class: 150 leading farmers world since 2012

• Rabobank Netherlands Successor’s Perspective Program: 1,000 Dutch farmers since 2007

• Rabobank Australia Executive Development Program: 550 leading farmers from Australia and New Zealand since 1999

• Rabobank Australia Farm Managers Program : 300 young high potentials in farming since 2006

• Rabobank Brazil Leaders in Agri Program: 71 young high potentials in farming since 2007

Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory

• 80+ research professionals and analists across 15 offices globally, covering the entire value chain in all food & agri sectors

• 196 reports published in 2014

• 435 presentations at food & agri events in 2014

• 664 citings in tier 1 media in 2014

Banking for Food access to networks

Rabobank client councils

• The Netherlands: member councils of 113 local Rabobanks

• Australia/New Zealand: 15 regional Client Councils; 100 participating clients

Food & Agri Advisory Boards

• Organized by Rabobank in the US and Asia

• Participants: CEO’s of large food & agri companies

Rabobank partnerships

• FAO; United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation

• Young farmers organizations NAJK (Netherlands))

• Nuffield (global farmer scholarship organization)

• Agricultural journalists organizations (IFAJ (global), NVLJ (Netherlands))

• World-Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Member of round tables (RT) for sustainable production:

• Global RT on Sustainable Beef (GRSB); Brazil Sustainable Beef RT (GTPS); 4-C Association (coffee);

RT on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO); RT on Responsible Soy (RTRS); Bonsucro (sugar cane)

Banking for Food global food & agri bank

Brazil: 17 offices, serving 1,000 top tier

farmers Chile: 12 offices, serving

1,000 top tier farmers

Oceania: 95 offices,

serving 15,000 top tier

farmers

Rabobank US: 154 offices,

serving 30,000 top tier

farmers

The Netherlands: 113 local

Rabobanks, market share 85%, serving

60,000 farmers

Rabo Development:

active in 23 developing

and emerging countries

Rabobank Foundation: active in 24 developing

and emerging countries

Global presence

Banking for Food global roots

1898 first Cooperative Farmers’ Banks in the Netherlands are founded (Raiffeisenbanks and Boerenleenbanks), renamed in Rabobank in 1972

2005 Start Rabo Development Program

2002 Acquisition of Valley Independent Bank; start of retail activities in USA

2014 Launch Banking for Food vision on food security and, within that context, the role of Rabobank

1997 purchased New Zealand based Wrightson Farmers Finance Limited, renamed to Rabobank New Zealand in 1999

1994 Take-over of Australian PIBA Bank; birth of ‘country banking’

1981 First overseas office opens in New York

1974 Start of Rabobank Foundation, aimed at increasing people’s self sufficiency world wide