Agrifirm

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process in relation to its sustainability strategy.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company is working towards reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It has set targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, aiming to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2024 compared to 2019. Additionally, the company plans to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2036. Progress against these targets is regularly reported.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses quantitative evidence on optimising the use of fertilisers in its production and/or sourcing practices.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company provides an email ID and website where individuals can report concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption, ensuring protection against reprisals. The website is accessible to everyone for reporting purposes and complainants have the option either to remain anonymous or to identify themselves when making a report.

Provide and promote decent work
The company publicly states that it mandates suppliers to provide a wage that takes into account the necessities of both workers and their families. In terms of gender equality, the company divulges the percentages of women across various employee categories within its direct operations workforce. Additionally, the company reports that out of its 8 board members, 3 are female, resulting in a 37.5% representation of women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company offers an email address and a website for reporting human rights grievances. The website provides an open channel for individuals to submit reports and allows the complainant the option either to remain anonymous or to identify themselves.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose whether 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. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and 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 an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives or targets including climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could report consistently on the progress against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a trajectory of 1.5 degrees. Additionally, the company could work towards reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and establish a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the company could report on its progress in achieving these scope 3 targets, ensuring that they are aligned with the 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
While the company discloses that most of its own operations are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme, it has an opportunity to extend the certifications to 100% of its own operations. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

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

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents, or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Living wage
The company states that it conducts risk assessments on its supply chains, addressing aspects such as the payment of living wages. It could further detail how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources and set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers. Additionally, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or direct suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has the opportunity to publicly disclose a policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It could also outline a comprehensive process for identifying potential bribery and corruption risks and their impacts, particularly in certain locations or activities within its operations. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships.

Furthermore, the company could establish a policy that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement. To enhance transparency, it could publicly disclose a policy statement indicating that it does not make political contributions. Moreover, the company could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and require its third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement guidelines.

Provide and promote decent work
The company demonstrates a commitment to workers’ safety and health but could enhance this commitment by formalising it in a publicly accessible policy document. Similarly, while it expects its business relationships to uphold the same standards, transforming this expectation into a clear policy commitment could enhance transparency.

Furthermore, the company could establish time-bound targets for paying all workers a living wage and share its methodology for determining living wages in various regions. This could underscore its dedication to fair compensation practices and workers’ well-being.

In addition, a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, accompanied by specific, time-bound targets, would illustrate the company’s dedication to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respect human rights, including the fundamental rights declared by the ILO. It could also reference these rights in a formal policy document. Furthermore, the company could describe its process for identifying human rights risks in specific locations and its supply chain. It could specify that its due diligence includes addressing human rights risks. Additionally, the company could disclose its process for identifying salient human rights issues and share the results of its human rights risk assessment. Finally, it has the opportunity to reveal a global system to address and prevent salient human rights issues.