Voices of Impact: Testimonials from Our Partners

“Mechanisms like ATNI exist due to ongoing market failures and inconsistent disclosures. At Danone, we used ATNI to measure our progress on health, one of our corporate objectives, and the company continues to do so. ATNI is a great achievement as a metric for investors”
– Emmanuel Faber, Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Former CEO of Danone.

 

“Businesses are often considered to be part of the nutrition problem – however, we should not underestimate the role the private sector can and must play in ending malnutrition. Through its accountability tools ATNI plays an important role in holding the food and beverage industry to account and encouraging action”
– Gerda Verburg, Former UN Assistant Secretary General and Coordinator of the SUN Movement.

“…The Access to Nutrition Index already provides an excellent example of how to apply nutrient profiling to processed, packaged foods.”- Shawn Baker, USAID. 

 

“There is a global nutrition crisis today in which far too many children are not getting the nutrition they need. The Access to Nutrition Initiative is a valuable player, encouraging action through much-needed transparency, accountability, and collaboration.”
– Andres Franco, Deputy Director, Multilateral Partnerships, UNICEF.

 

“In a few short years, ATNI has established itself as the definitive, go-to source for analysis and insight on the world’s leading manufacturers of breast-milk substitutes.”
– Lucy Sullivan, Former Executive Director, 1,000 Days 

 

“We have benchmarked all in-scope products using the Health Star Rating (HSR) system – a nutrient profiling system applied by the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) – and we have also disclosed sales from our wide range of specialized nutrition products, which are not covered by the HSR system”
– Mark Schneider, former CEO of Nestlé.

“In the nutrition space, the @ATNIndex is the gold standard, as the only global organisation offering the right level of granularity, the credentials and the means to support demonstrating the impact of our sector’s commitments, says Renaldi.” – IFBA via Twitter. 

 

The Access to Nutrition Indexes are an invaluable resource that will enable us to use our investment decision-making and engagement to push for change in a market where obesity is a material risk for investors and companies alike.” – Boston Common Asset Management. 

 

Within FrieslandCampina, the results of the Access to Nutrition Index are a valuable input to our discussions about policies and practices in the area of nutrition and health.” – FrieslandCampina.

 

“The ATNI is very well regarded.  We are seeing more interest from  companies about how they score in the assessment.” – Aberdeen Standard.