AGD Group

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Channels for reporting grievances include a website, email address, fax number and mail address.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company. Channels for reporting grievances include a website, email address, fax number and mail address.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member and to provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company can report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
While the company discloses efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its industrial processes, it has the opportunity to provide quantifiable reductions for its scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions. Furthermore, it has the opportunity to disclose time-bound reduction targets and track progress against these goals. It could also align these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has the opportunity to disclose its efforts to achieve conversion-free supply chains and set time-bound targets for this goal.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilisers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, the company has the chance to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and establish an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to describe how it assesses living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could describe procurement and pricing practices that can contribute to living income and improve farmers’ income resilience. Furthermore, it could showcase activities that enable farmers to act more strategically in their relationships with buyers.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Particularly, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, retention of workers’ personal documents or restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of the suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant parts of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards. Also, it could require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts, and establish a process to address related issues. Moreover, it can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently revealing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ health and safety by setting a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describing the living wage determination methodology, and disclosing strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage. Furthermore, it could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, it could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, it could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.