Soy
Soybeans are now one of the world’s largest crops, mainly driven by demand for animal feed in meat and dairy production.
Expanding soy production has led to significant deforestation and habitat conversion, particularly in South America, the biggest soy producing region after the USA.
In 2021, Iceland became a signatory to the UK Soy Manifesto. This is an industry commitment to ensure that all soy and embedded soy products in the UK are deforestation- and conversion-free. Iceland has agreed to:
- Set a deforestation and conversion-free commitment
- Ask direct suppliers to adopt and cascade the same commitment
- Integrate manifesto commitments with direct suppliers’ commercial contractual agreements, and support compliance
- Publicly disclose progress
- Encourage harmonised monitoring, verification and reporting.
Our soy footprint
During the financial year 2022/23 Iceland products used 65,662 tonnes of soy, compared with 69,621 tonnes in 2021/22.
